Bring back your desktop by restarting Windows explorer.exe
Posted by mitzSep 17
When your computer crashes, sometimes you lose your icons, taskbar, start menu, and so on. This is called Windows Explorer.exe. This video tutorial shows you how to stop or restart explorer.exe so you can get the desktop back to normal. Starting the explorer.exe will bring back your desktop icons, taskbar, notification area, and start menu.
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nice intruction n detail for step by step. my question is can i implemented this instruction for windows XP, thanks before
Yes you can start and stop explorer.exe in both Windows Vista and Windows XP, however to get to task manager in Windows XP you just have to press CTRL ALT DEL. In the video it shows how to get to task manager in Vista. You can even use this to start Explorer in Windows Seven.
I am very happy I found your website and now I know how to start explorer.exe. thank you…I didn’t even know what explorer was.
Thank you. Very easy to understand video. I went to your Youtube channel and subscribed. I can learn allot from you.
Thanks Markus, for anyone else wanting to see more videos go to my Youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/Computerbasics
Now that is an OS trick that I did not know about. Cool!