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Isn't the restart there because explorer is also the desktop? If it was just killed, you'd have to know how to launch shutdown.exe from the task manager etc.
by accoil 3y ago
Isn't the restart there because explorer is also the desktop? If it was just killed, you'd have to know how to launch shutdown.exe from the task manager etc.
- dspillett 3y agoI think it is a relatively recent (Win8?) addition, and explorer has been the shell since '95. I take adding a specific button for it as an admission that Explorer is getting increasingly buggy, so users are needing to restart it more. Before then you could do the same thing from the same task manager just in two steps: kill the existing explorer.exe and start a new one from the Run command in the menus.