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Easy Windows Crash Fix

#1 ShrOomiN

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Posted 07 March 2008 - 05:39 PM

I always hear windows crashes/freezes too often. I always thought it was crazy talk though since I knew the following.

If it ever crashes just go ahead and open up the task manager and then go to the Processes tab find explorer.exe and end it, and then go back to the task manager, and in the Menu hit File, New Task (Run...), and then in the box it brings up type explorer.exe

Hope that helps someone, that's saved me from wasting my time, with restarting, waiting it out and other nonsense.

This post has been edited by boopme: 09 March 2008 - 07:48 PM
Reason for edit: fixed spelling in explorer

#2 david28

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Posted 08 March 2008 - 05:00 PM

Yes that does actually work. I have required it a few times.

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#3 mommabear

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Posted 09 March 2008 - 07:47 AM

Thank you! I'll give that a try the next time.

#4 fred333

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Posted 07 April 2008 - 12:59 PM

Thanks for the tip. It really works.

#5 Beenthere

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Posted 11 April 2008 - 05:45 PM

i never thought i'd see guys on this forum that didn't know that o_O

anyway, since there are guys that havent heard about it, good job OP ;)

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Posted 12 April 2008 - 08:46 PM

You may find that you have to go to the Processes tab in Task Manager and remove any instances of explorer.exe there before this will work, but work it usually does. Very handy, and quicker than a reboot.

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#7 ShrOomiN

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Posted 15 April 2008 - 06:10 AM

Ha me too, wasn't really sure if I was helping with making this thread.

#8 rowal5555

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Posted 15 April 2008 - 04:04 PM

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