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How can you do a clean shutdown of Windows Explorer?
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Mar 15, 20262402 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Windows Explorer is the default shell under Windows (since Windows 95). Sometimes you need to restart it, so my usual way is to kill it using the Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc, click on , select explorer.exe, click on ). Is there a way to cleanly shut down / close Windows Explorer without logging ou…
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I know you can do this in Windows 7, and perhaps Vista by holding Ctrl+Shift and right clicking on the background of the opened start menu. You will get two options, "Properties" and "Exit Explorer": I don't know for certain which version of windows…
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