Click the ‘File’ menu, click ‘Run new task’.

Now, you need to start explorer.exe manually. This will close the Explorer shell safely.

Click the ‘Exit Explorer’ menu option that appears.

Press and hold the CTRL and SHIFT keys, and right-click an empty area in the Taskbar.

In Windows 10, there is a hidden ‘Exit Explorer’ option in the Taskbar context menu.

Restart Explorer in Windows 10 with Taskbar Menu This closes the Explorer shell process safely and restarts it automatically.

Select ‘Windows Explorer’ in the list and click on the Restart button at the bottom right corner.Īlternatively, you can right-click the ‘Windows Explorer’ row and select ‘Restart’ in the menu.

Scroll to ‘Windows processes’ and look for the ‘Windows Explorer’ row.

If it looks like this, then click on ‘More details’ at the bottom left.

Open Task Manager(press Ctrl + Shift + Esc keys).

In Windows 10, you can use Task Manager to exit and restart the Explorer shell in one go. Restart Explorer in Windows 10 with Task Manager

Restart Explorer in Windows 10 with Taskkill.

Restart Explorer in Windows 10 with Taskbar Menu.

Restart Explorer in Windows 10 with Task Manager.

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