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25 Feb 2012 | #1 |
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Hello, I joined the windows 7 forums because I wanted to thank you Brink for your wonderful tutorial re. how to add restart explorer to the desktop.
What a lifesaver this was! I had been having problems with my desktop icons not showing up on starting my computer; also could not access anything on start menu; desktop was "frozen." Had to reboot into safe mode, then restart, then all was well. After this happened several times though, I took to the net, and found this wonderful informative forum. After some searching for my problem, I found this post with very nicely spelled out instructions, as well as screen shots and a link to download the .bat file. This solved my problem of a "disappearing desktop." Just occasionally, something gets messed up and I have to run that file again, and then everything is back like it should be. I also have made use of the tutorial/post to fix disappearing side bar gadgets; thank you for this! All in all, I am so glad I have found these wonderful forums! Thank you, everyone. techiegirl ![]() |
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25 Feb 2012 | #2 |
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You're most welcome Techiegirl, and welcome to Seven Forums. Thank you for the kind words.
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19 Oct 2017 | #3 |
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Very useful; thanks.
But, I have a question. In your bat file, you include a pause. Is that because taskkill will return before it has finished killing all "explorer.exe"s? I note that D3ftOn3Z did not include a pause. It would be more useful for me if the pause were not needed. If taskkill returns immediately, that seems to require an involved loop? BTW, in the bat file I suggest you say "echo Killing all explorer.exe processes...." rather than "echo Killing the explorer.exe process...." I have the option set to run each new explorer window in a new process, so there are usually multiple processes. BTW, also, everyone fails to mention that taskkill will kill all processes with that name. |
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19 Oct 2017 | #4 |
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Hello apb,
![]() The pause was included to be able to perform tasks that can only be done when explorer has been killed. You can safely remove the pause entry since you don't need it. I'll update the bat to make processes plural. |
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20 Oct 2017 | #5 |
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Thanks!
--peter |
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20 Oct 2017 | #6 |
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