I ended explore.exe process on resource monitor and my taskbar disappeared and my screen went white but my cursor was still visible. Is there anyway to stop this next time?

Harley 26 Reputation points
2021-08-07T16:45:12.683+00:00

I disabled it because i needed to rename a file and it said that The action can't be completed because the folder or a file in it is open in another program. i saw it could be so something to do with explore.exe and it appears to be so i pressed end process and immediately my taskbar disappeared and my desktop turned white.

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  1. Andreas Baumgarten 102.2K Reputation points MVP
    2021-08-07T17:44:00.153+00:00

    Hi @Harley ,

    the explorer.exe is the process that is responsible for "displaying" the desktop/taskbar/startmenu and file browsing ;-)

    If you kill the explorer.exe the desktop is "gone" ;-)

    Open the Taskmanager and start a new explorer.exe process and you will get back your desktop.

    Which OS are you running?

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    Andreas Baumgarten

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  2. Rahul 0 Reputation points
    2024-02-23T10:16:21.21+00:00

    @Andreas Baumgarten Sir I had done some file end process after which my windows hp laptop becomes slow What should I do?

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