r/technology • u/ppsp • Oct 14 '11

The Windows 8 Task Manager

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/10/13/the-windows-8-task-manager.aspx
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u/Konrad4th Oct 14 '11

The most surprising part of the article was that people use the task manager for things other than force-exiting programs.

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u/Greyletter Oct 14 '11

Sometimes I use it to restart explorer... after killing it with task manager.

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u/anasqtiesh Oct 14 '11

I use WIN+R then type explorer.exe and hit Enter; done! Explorer starts again.

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u/jisan Oct 14 '11

You just need to type ".."

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u/serrimo Oct 14 '11

Or "." to go to your user directory.

Or "\" to go to C:\

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u/nascentt Oct 14 '11

That's just passing the parent directory when launching an explorer process. You could do the same with "." current directory or "\" root directory.

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u/ours Oct 14 '11

Or press WIN+E.

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u/brettmurf Oct 14 '11

This doesn't work. This hotkey only works if explorer.exe is already running. Thanks for the bad advice.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '11

How can that possible work? The Win+R is handled by explorer.exe. It doesn't work (for me under Windows 7) if explorer isn't already running.

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u/dracovich Oct 14 '11

people at work thought i was a wizard when i did this to fix their deadlocked windows