How to restart explorer shell (explorer.exe) in Microsoft Windows
- Monday, March 10, 2008, 0:00
- Operating System, Troubleshooting, Windows XP
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Once in while the taskbar (the one with the start menu) in your Microsoft Windows will disappear from your desktop without any warning what so ever. This is due to the fact that explorer, the default shell for Microsoft Windows have been terminated by itself or other by other processes. Most of computer user will push the restart button when this happen, in order for the taskbar to reappear.
The solution to this is to restart explorer shell (explorer.exe) , and there is an easy way to restart explorer shell without having to restart your Microsoft Windows.
Follow this step to restart explorer shell (explorer.exe)
- If task manager is not running, run Task Manager by holding the key CTRL+SHIFT+ESC.
- In application tab (the first tab in Task Manager) , click on the “New Task” button.
- Type explorer. exe in the create new task popup.
- Click “Ok”.
Explorer.exe will start, and your taskbar will reappear will all the background program in the system tray.
Hope this will this easy step on how to restart explorer shell (explorer.exe) will be useful to all.
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