Recover (Faster) From a Windows Explorer Hang
May 24, 2007 by Jason
Every once in a while, Windows Explorer hangs on my machine. (I am running Windows XP. ) I will be able to switch between programs using alt+tab and all my running software still runs, but nothing I do will get Windows Explorer going again. In previous versions of Windows I could kill the Explorer using the task manager and the operating system would restart it. XP doest do that anymore, which really surprised me the first time I did this. Now what? I thought. The only thing left to do is hard reboot, right? Nope!
It turns out that logging off and logging back on is enough to re-initialize the Windows Explorer, but I am getting ahead of myself. Read More»
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