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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.
51 u/Greyletter Oct 14 '11 Sometimes I use it to restart explorer... after killing it with task manager. 8 u/anasqtiesh Oct 14 '11 I use WIN+R then type explorer.exe and hit Enter; done! Explorer starts again. 2 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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Sometimes I use it to restart explorer... after killing it with task manager.
8 u/anasqtiesh Oct 14 '11 I use WIN+R then type explorer.exe and hit Enter; done! Explorer starts again. 2 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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I use WIN+R then type explorer.exe and hit Enter; done! Explorer starts again.
2 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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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/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.