Windows explorer fixes – How to restart explorer.exe
Filed Under (Hot Tips) by AndiC on June-6-2008

Ever had your desktop stop responding or a message saying that explorer.exe has stopped responding?
Most people restart their computer, this is not always required and can take a while. The solution is to force explorer to stop running and restart it.

This can be don’t through task manager by first pressing ctrl + alt +del clicking on processes and looking for explorer.exe. A Hot tip is to press the ‘e’ key to scroll through all processes beginning with that letter.

Once explorer is selected click the end process button. To restart explorer go to menu and select ‘new task’ then type explorer and okay. You should now be able to restart from where you left off.

This is probably one of the fastest windows explorer fixes, however, if it keep happening regularly you will need to find the rout of the problem,

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victor15707 on June 16th, 2008 at 1:57 pm #

[..YouTube..] wat if u dont see explorer.exe

TITISIMO25 on July 8th, 2008 at 12:57 pm #

[..YouTube..] my explorer runs for about 15 seconds then crashes. then it works again but doesnt restart from where i left off.

xXSgtJohnsonXx on August 22nd, 2008 at 1:36 pm #

[..YouTube..] my GOD dude you saved my life…i ALMOST recovered my system…and i dont have the CD thingyI BOW DOWN TO YOU!!!!!

JusticeEmu on August 30th, 2008 at 8:09 am #

[..YouTube..] if explorer.exe is crashed why are you trying to end the process lol? its already ended what you have to do is run it again. watch from 2:40 to the end of the video on how to start it back up

nosfra on September 10th, 2008 at 3:08 am #

[..YouTube..] it worked and solved a few of my problems. THANKS

8888mom8888 on September 16th, 2008 at 1:48 pm #

[..YouTube..] thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

richboy908 on October 14th, 2008 at 8:50 am #

[..YouTube..] mine says “Windows cannot find”explorer”

DaizanXVII on October 25th, 2008 at 2:36 pm #

[..YouTube..] same here

ryanbrown14 on October 29th, 2008 at 7:14 am #

[..YouTube..] Good Helpbut do you have any suggestions or tips to help me with my problem. I have the explorer.exe problem and i fix using your adivice and its all fine. The problem occurs when i restart my system. For some reason when it is re started i get the explorer.exe problem again. Why is this?

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