07-12-2004, 03:47 PM -
Haha, good question... I believe explorer.exe only automatically restarts if it has crashed (so it terminated itself), not when it's terminated by the user.
In Windows 2000/XP it's easy: just press Ctrl+Alt+Del to get the Taskmanager, where you can simply use File->Run...
In Windows 95/98, you should open a command line prompt before shutting down explorer.exe. Then you can just type "explorer" at the prompt and hit enter to restart it...
Btw, Process Explorer also has a File->Run option, so you could use this instead of the command prompt...
Btw, you say 'sometimes' you get the runtime error when right-clicking... Can you give more details, like how often does it occur, and where do you right-click, does explorer terminate then? It might be related to the mysterious crashes I reported when right-clicking a TLB shortcut)
In Windows 2000/XP it's easy: just press Ctrl+Alt+Del to get the Taskmanager, where you can simply use File->Run...
In Windows 95/98, you should open a command line prompt before shutting down explorer.exe. Then you can just type "explorer" at the prompt and hit enter to restart it...
Btw, Process Explorer also has a File->Run option, so you could use this instead of the command prompt...
Btw, you say 'sometimes' you get the runtime error when right-clicking... Can you give more details, like how often does it occur, and where do you right-click, does explorer terminate then? It might be related to the mysterious crashes I reported when right-clicking a TLB shortcut)
Windows 7, IE 9.0, Shell 6.0.6000.16386, TLB 4.2.3 beta