Occasionally you may need to restart your Windows Desktop. Something may have become corrupt on your Desktop. A change you made to the Registry may need to be activated.
In a recent post, I showed you how to Remove Help and Support from your XP Start Menu. The last step of this process was to reboot your computer. You could have saved some time by simply restarting your Windows Desktop.
Here is the procedure to restart your Windows Desktop:
1. Right click on your Windows Taskbar and select Task Manager
2. In Task Manager, Find the program called explorer.exe, click to highlight explorer.exe, then click End Process (Tip: Click the Image Name box to put the running applications in alphabetical order).
3. Your taskbar and desktop icons should disappear. This means your Windows Desktop (explorer.exe) is not running. To restart your desktop, select the File | New Task (Run) menu option in Windows Task Manager and run explorer.exe to restart your Windows Desktop.
With that, your Desktop icons and your Windows Task Bar should return. Compared to a lengthy reboot, this is guaranteed to save you a bunch of time!
1 comment:
Hey, somehow I ran across this. Just as a fyi you don't even need the .exe in the run prompt.
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