In this post, we will shed some light on both Windows 8 system repair options Refresh your PC and Reset your PC. Apart with Windows Reset option, Windows 8 also includes Refresh your PC option for situations where your PC frequently becomes unstable and starts behaving in an erratic manner. We also discussed that Windows 8 will include an one-click option to reset PC without having to follow long and tiring system cleaning steps. Type Explorer in the “Create New Task” dialog and press Enter.Last year, we wrote a detailed guide on how to reset Windows 7 back to original factory settings which involved a long list of procedures to be followed in defined sequence, such as, uninstalling application from third party developers, removing application cache, MRU lists, invalid Windows registry entries, and deleting all user profiles and data. To start Explorer again, press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to start the Task Manager, and use File -> New task menu item in Task Manager. In Windows 7 and Vista, you can hold down Ctrl+Shift and right click on an empty area of the Start Menu to access “Exit Explorer”.
The extra item will appear in the context menu, from there you can properly exit the Explorer shell:. Press and hold Ctrl + Shift keys and right click the Start menu. Windows 10 has a similar “Exit Explorer” option for the taskbar.Īdditionally, it has the same command “Exit Explorer” in the context menu of the Start menu, as Windows 7 used to have: Viola, you just got access to a hidden context menu item: “Exit Explorer”. On Windows 8, press and hold Ctrl+Shift keys on your keyboard and right click on an empty area of the Taskbar. Method 1: Use the secret “Exit Explorer” context menu item of Taskbar or Start Menu If you applied some tweak which requires you to log off and log in back, in most cases, it is enough to only restart the shell. All files that are locked for use by the Explorer.exe process will be released. If you leave Explorer, all shell extensions will be unloaded from the shell and will be cleanly deleted by the uninstaller. You are trying to uninstall some software with shell extensions, e.g. There are several reasons when you may want to exit the Explorer shell and start it again, such as: In case you didn’t know them, today I am going to share them with you. They can be useful when you make registry changes that affect Explorer or for shell developers when testing shell extensions. Windows provides several secret ways to exit the Explorer shell.
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