Use a Batch File for Quickly Restarting explorer.exe
Explorer.exe is the user shell on your Windows system (taskbar, desktop, etc.) and periodically it requires a restart to resume proper functionality. Additionally, if you do a lot of tweaking to your system registry like I do, it’s much easier to restart explorer.exe to reload the registry instead of restarting the entire system. By creating a .bat file, you will have a quick 2 step solution that will restart explorer.exe and get you back to computing in just a few seconds.1. Open Notepad.
2. Copy and paste the following into the new document:
@echo off
taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe
explorer.exe
3. Save your document with a descriptive name such as restart_explorer.bat. Make sure to save the file with the .bat extension and not .txt.
The next time you need to restart explorer.exe, simply run the newly created .bat file and close the command window that appears.
I find this useful when trying to remote onto a computer on which explorer.exe is playing up an therefore the remote connection won’t work. I go to \\computer_name –> Scheduled Tasks, setup a scheduled task to run a similar script to this one to restart explorer.exe and voila! Remote desktop connection working again.
Giggity
ខែ កញ្ញា 1, 2008
ty was looking it up
btw you need taskkill.exe
you can get it here
http://home.wanadoo.nl/gigajosh/2005/05/taskkillexe.html
then copy it into C://windows/system32/
i can also improve on script
taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe
start explorer.exe
exit
what it does
“ taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe” ends the explorer.exe process
“ start” before explorer.exe stops the .bat wanting to wait for explorer.exe to finnish
and exit closes the command window
mrclean128
ខែ ធ្នូ 1, 2008
You can add an
exitafter explorer.exe to close the command windowAjay
ខែ ធ្នូ 18, 2008
Thank
Myhouse
ខែ ធ្នូ 25, 2008
it works without the “ @echo off” line
kevan
ខែ មករា 22, 2009