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Command to restart programs via command prompt?


With the CMD command you can quite quickly quit programs and applications and restart on Windows 11, 10, ... and MS Server OS!



There are also tools for such tasks, such as the free Windows tool ProcessKO, but you do not always have to have a program on your PC. 

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1.) ... simple example how to restarting the File-Explorer, if File-Explorer hangs!
2.) ... Is it still necessary to restart programs on Windows!



1.) Here's a simple example how to restarting the File-Explorer, if File-Explorer hangs!

Create a batch file on the desktop with the name (as example) restart_explorer.bat

and enter the following commands

taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F 
explorer.exe 
This is also the command to restart Windows Desktop The desktop is provided by the MS file explorer, so it is a sub-function of the explorer, if you restart it, the desktop is also restarted.

The first closes all explorer.exe processes / programs
The second one starts the ms-explore 

By double clicking on the batch file both commands are executed immediately. (... see Image-1)
Quite, smart, fast and easy!

See also: Use Taskkill with the Cmd.exe correctly and sensibly with examples!

(Image-1) Restart programs via command prompt!
Restart programs via command prompt!


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2.) Is it still necessary to restart programs on Windows!

Especially when explorer hangs it's annoying to have to wait to get disk access, restarting explorer also aborts all copy operations, however, if you don't want to wait, this example is very helpful for the following all Windows operating systems and you can continue working with the file explorer immediately.



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