{"id":11383,"date":"2018-05-05T02:47:45","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T02:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=11383"},"modified":"2018-05-05T02:53:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T02:53:48","slug":"restart-file-explorer-in-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/restart-file-explorer-in-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Ways to Restart File Explorer in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

How do I restart Windows Explorer manually if it isn’t responding? I accidentally turned off Windows Explorer. Now, nothing is on my desktop, including the start menu. How do I get it back? In this tutorial we’ll show you 3 easy ways to restart File Explorer manually in Windows 10.<\/p>\n

Method 1: Restart File Explorer from Task Manager<\/strong><\/p>\n

Press and hold down the key combination Ctrl<\/strong> + Shift<\/strong> + Esc<\/strong> to launch Task Manager<\/a>. To see all of your PC’s current processes, click More details<\/strong> at the bottom of the Task Manager window.<\/p>\n

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Switch to Process<\/strong> tab, locate the Windows Explorer<\/strong> entry from the list, then click the Restart<\/strong> button on the lower-right hand corner.<\/p>\n

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Method 2: Quit File Explorer and Then Start It<\/strong><\/p>\n

Open Task Manager. In the Details<\/strong> tab, locate the explorer.exe<\/strong> process and then click the End task<\/strong> button.<\/p>\n

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There is another handy way for quitting the Windows Explorer. In Windows 10 \/ 8, you can hold Ctrl<\/strong>+Shift<\/strong> while right-clicking any empty area of the taskbar. Click the Exit Explorer<\/strong> command from the popup menu.<\/p>\n

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After quitting File Explorer, the taskbar and desktop icons will disappear. To access File Explorer again, press Ctrl + Shift + Esc keys on your keyboard to open Task Manager. Click the File<\/strong> menu and then choose “Run new task<\/strong>“.<\/p>\n

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Type explorer.exe<\/strong> into the Open box and hit OK<\/strong> to relaunch Windows Explorer.<\/p>\n

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Method 3: Restart File Explorer Using Command Prompt<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can also use the taskkill command to perform a restart of File Explorer. Here’s how to restart File Explorer from Command Prompt:<\/p>\n

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  1. Open the Command Prompt as administrator<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  2. Copy the following commands and paste them into Command Prompt:
    \ntaskkill \/f \/IM explorer.exe
    \nstart explorer.exe<\/code><\/p>\n

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    \tThe first command will terminate File Explorer, while the second one will relaunch it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    How do I restart Windows Explorer manually if it isn’t responding? I accidentally turned off Windows Explorer. Now, nothing is on my desktop, including the start menu. How do I get it back? In this tutorial we’ll show you 3 easy ways to restart File Explorer manually in Windows 10. Method 1: Restart File Explorer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894],"tags":[3757,3758],"class_list":["post-11383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","tag-restart-file-explorer-windows-10","tag-restart-windows-explorer-command-line"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11383"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11399,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11383\/revisions\/11399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}