Taskbar crashes, what is cmd to start it again?

#1 sfetaz

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Posted 05 February 2005 - 05:04 PM

I have my Windows XP Pro setup so that The Taskbar and Explorer run in a seperate process. Problem is that sometimes the taskbar will crash and not start up again. When this happenes with Explorer I run "explorer". So what should I run to get the taskbar and start menu back?

#2 Afterdawn

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Posted 05 February 2005 - 07:38 PM

Just hit Ctrl + SHift + Escape to start the tast-manager.

Then in the menu choose Run...

And type explorer! Explorer.exe works for the taskbar too.

#3 sfetaz

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Posted 06 February 2005 - 04:47 AM

I should have explained that when I enter Explorer in run, windows explorer pops up instead of restarting the task bar.

#4 SiMoNsAyS

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Posted 06 February 2005 - 09:34 AM

that is because it has been modified a regkey. i can remember which was exactly, content of the key is "explorer.exe" ...
... 2 mins later...
... just a bit of google.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"Shell"="explorer.exe"

restore this key and come back if it doesn't work

#5 sfetaz

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Posted 07 February 2005 - 07:36 AM

That entry already exists in the registry.

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