Reload Registry Without Reboot

Contributed by davak September 13, 2003  
Tagged: Windows

See changes to registry without requiring a complete reboot

1. Press CTRL-ALT-DELETE to bring up the Windows task list.
2. Select Explorer and click on End Task
3. When the Shutdown screen is shown, click Cancel
4. After a few seconds an error message will show. Click on End Task.

Then Windows will reload explorer and any new registry settings.