Comments on: Windows XP/Vista: Use a Batch File for Quickly Restarting explorer.exe

By: noworkie

noworkie — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:55:00 +0000

doesn’t work in win7. as stated above it brings up windows explorer (i.e. “my documents”) and leaves the explorer.exe desktop closed.
manually typing explorer.exe in a cmd prompt brings it back up, but explorer.exe in a batch file doesn’t work. any solutions?

By: Eight8rooney4ever

Eight8rooney4ever — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 15:12:00 +0000

The “Taskkill” command is not Recognize in Windows XP
that’s the problem
and it skips this step and run explorer.exe
that’s why it open “Windows Explorer”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:41:00 +0000

Ran batch file and it now opens the “Windows Explorer” instead of restarting “Explorer” (desktop). It used to restart Explorer as described in your post. I checked the batch file and it is exactly the same as copied from you post. Any suggestions?

By: FloJo

FloJo — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:39:00 +0000

Or Task Manager > Applications > New Task > explorer.exe