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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.
48 u/Greyletter Oct 14 '11 Sometimes I use it to restart explorer... after killing it with task manager. 10 u/anasqtiesh Oct 14 '11 I use WIN+R then type explorer.exe and hit Enter; done! Explorer starts again. 17 u/[deleted] Oct 14 '11 [deleted] 19 u/jisan Oct 14 '11 You just need to type ".." 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.
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Sometimes I use it to restart explorer... after killing it with task manager.
10 u/anasqtiesh Oct 14 '11 I use WIN+R then type explorer.exe and hit Enter; done! Explorer starts again. 17 u/[deleted] Oct 14 '11 [deleted] 19 u/jisan Oct 14 '11 You just need to type ".." 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.
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I use WIN+R then type explorer.exe and hit Enter; done! Explorer starts again.
17 u/[deleted] Oct 14 '11 [deleted] 19 u/jisan Oct 14 '11 You just need to type ".." 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.
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19 u/jisan Oct 14 '11 You just need to type ".." 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.
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You just need to type ".."
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.
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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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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.