Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Reboot without rebooting

DOH! How come I'm just finding this?
FASTEST REBOOT - KILL EXPLORER.EXE
This is the fastest way to Refresh (reboot) explorer.
Instead of completely rebooting because of system crash or new registry input or other reasons.
simply
Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete (at the same time)
OR
on an empty space on the Taskbar >right click it > click Task Manager

then in the Task Manager window
Right Click on Explorer.exe
end process
click yes
(explorer items will disappear)
then click on File in the menu
New Task
Type in explorer.exe
ok
explorer and the registry will then be freshly reloaded
4/26/2006 06:57:00 PM 4 Comments

"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. "
Argus Hamilton


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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yoo must be takin' some of those smarty pills. You gettin' smarta already.

4/26/06, 7:06 PM
Anonymous said...

More than I can say for Neil Young. He's still taking those Idiot pills, cause he's turning into a 100% idiot.

4/26/06, 7:10 PM
Anonymous said...

Or... you could buy a Mac -hehe!
TFV

4/26/06, 11:18 PM
Anonymous said...

Often the same method is useful for unlocking stuck filehandles so that files can then be deleted.

4/27/06, 5:32 AM

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