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Restarting Explorer

If your computer starts acting strange, one thing that is worth trying is to restart explorer. This can be done through the task manager (Ctr-alt-del) by ending the explorer process. When you do this you will see that your desktop icons and your taskbar will disappear, along with any open explorer windows (not to be confused with Internet Explorer, or your web browser which will remain unnafected). Then you will need to go to 'File-New Task' and enter 'explorer' to start it again.

Another easier way to accomplish this is to creat a .bat file to restart explorer. Open Notepad and past the following into it:

@echo off
taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe
start explorer.exe
exit

Now save this file as something you will remember with a '.bat' extension, I called mine restart-ie.bat.

You can now save this file, or a shortcut to it several places like on your desktop, in your start menu, you can also put one in your C:\Windows\System32 folder making it possible to start it with a run command (go to start-run and type in the filename without the .bat)

Note: This works in XP-Pro, and XP-home. I haven't tried it in Vista. If you are using XP-Home, you will need the taskkill.exe file, which you can find here. You will need to unzip this file and save it to your C:\Windows\System32 folder.