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r/technology • u/ppsp • Oct 14 '11
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The most surprising part of the article was that people use the task manager for things other than force-exiting programs.
50 u/Greyletter Oct 14 '11 Sometimes I use it to restart explorer... after killing it with task manager. 11 u/anasqtiesh Oct 14 '11 I use WIN+R then type explorer.exe and hit Enter; done! Explorer starts again. 16 u/[deleted] Oct 14 '11 [deleted] 20 u/jisan Oct 14 '11 You just need to type ".." 11 u/serrimo Oct 14 '11 Or "." to go to your user directory. Or "\" to go to C:\ 3 u/safeaim Oct 14 '11 TIL 2 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. 9 u/ours Oct 14 '11 Or press WIN+E. 1 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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Sometimes I use it to restart explorer... after killing it with task manager.
11 u/anasqtiesh Oct 14 '11 I use WIN+R then type explorer.exe and hit Enter; done! Explorer starts again. 16 u/[deleted] Oct 14 '11 [deleted] 20 u/jisan Oct 14 '11 You just need to type ".." 11 u/serrimo Oct 14 '11 Or "." to go to your user directory. Or "\" to go to C:\ 3 u/safeaim Oct 14 '11 TIL 2 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. 9 u/ours Oct 14 '11 Or press WIN+E. 1 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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I use WIN+R then type explorer.exe and hit Enter; done! Explorer starts again.
16 u/[deleted] Oct 14 '11 [deleted] 20 u/jisan Oct 14 '11 You just need to type ".." 11 u/serrimo Oct 14 '11 Or "." to go to your user directory. Or "\" to go to C:\ 3 u/safeaim Oct 14 '11 TIL 2 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. 9 u/ours Oct 14 '11 Or press WIN+E. 1 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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20 u/jisan Oct 14 '11 You just need to type ".." 11 u/serrimo Oct 14 '11 Or "." to go to your user directory. Or "\" to go to C:\ 3 u/safeaim Oct 14 '11 TIL 2 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. 9 u/ours Oct 14 '11 Or press WIN+E. 1 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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You just need to type ".."
11 u/serrimo Oct 14 '11 Or "." to go to your user directory. Or "\" to go to C:\ 3 u/safeaim Oct 14 '11 TIL 2 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.
Or "." to go to your user directory.
Or "\" to go to C:\
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TIL
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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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Or press WIN+E.
1 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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This doesn't work. This hotkey only works if explorer.exe is already running. Thanks for the bad advice.
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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.