

The image name of the process to be terminated. Terminate the specified process forcefully. The taskkill command parameters used to force the termination of the process: Option SUCCESS: The process "explorer.exe" with PID 6084 has been terminated. To restart the Explorer from the CMD, firstly you should execute the following command to terminate the explorer.exe process: C:\> taskkill /f /im explorer.exe To start the Windows command prompt (CMD), press the ⊞ Win + R to launch the “Run” dialog and execute the cmd. Right click on the “Windows Explorer” and click on “Restart”ĭisappearing “Start” Menu & Taskbar: While restarting the Explorer, the “Start” menu or the Taskbar may temporarily disappear until it has finished restarting.In the “Processes” tab search for the “Windows Explorer” process.

Click on the “More details”, if it has opened in a compact mode.Press the Ctrl + Shift + Esc keyboard shortcut to open the Task Manager.To restart the Windows Explorer from the Task Manager: Restart Windows Explorer Restart Windows Explorer using Task Manager In this note i will show how to fix problems with the Windows Explorer by restarting the explorer.exe from the Windows Task Manager or from the command prompt (CMD). If any of the components the Windows Explorer is responsible of are freezing, hanging and not responding, before restarting the whole computer you can try to restart the explorer.exe process only. Windows Explorer or explorer.exe is a process in Windows that is responsible for starting and displaying the most of the graphical user interfaces (GUI), including the Desktop, Taskbar, “Start” menu and File Explorer.
