How to: Start and kill explorer

You might need to kill explorer if it stops responding. You would probably open up Task Manager (Ctrl + Alt + Del) or even restart if you were really dumb. The clean way to close explorer is like this:


Go to Start > Turn Off Computer and hold Ctrl + Alt + Shift and press Cancel.


The start bar and desktop will disappear. To start explorer again and get them back, press Ctrl + Alt + Delete to bring up the Task Manager, click New task and type explorer. Press enter to run it