Restart Explorer Command Line Now

She called her friend Leo, a system administrator who loved solving problems with a single line of text.

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe

Meera opened Command Prompt (Win + R, then cmd ). She typed: restart explorer command line

She didn’t lose a single open file. Photoshop and Chrome stayed exactly as they were. She called her friend Leo, a system administrator

Poof. Her taskbar disappeared. Her desktop icons vanished. Only her open apps remained floating on a blank screen. She called her friend Leo

Within two seconds, the taskbar returned. The Start menu worked. The clock ticked. Her icons reappeared.

start explorer.exe