Leopard: How to Relaunch Finder
Contributed by Rob Rogers 
Tagged: Mac OS X Leopard If Finder is misbehaving you probably think you need to restart your computer. Usually you can fix the problem by relaunching Finder itself. This saves a lot of time since the relaunch only takes seconds to do.
1. Press and hold the Option key and click and hold the Finder icon until a menu appears.
2. Select Relaunch.
Your desktop icons will disappear for a short bit and then return. As soon as they come back, you can resume your computing tasks.
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Alex said on February 23, 2009
umm not in leopard you dont :P
you have to go to the force quit menu, its not in the dock menu anymore…
Greg said on March 31, 2009
works in my leopard
Peter said on April 14, 2009
No relaunch in the menu in Leopard
Yiğit Genç said on July 21, 2011
Thanks a lot!