Frozen+Windows+Explorer


 * Frozen Windows Explorer **

If Windows Explorer freezes, you may have to wait a while to see if it will start working again, and then restart your PC if it does not.

Fortunately, the problem can often be solved by restarting Windows Explorer itself. Sometimes when you have installed a new shell extension or applied a registry tweak that affects Windows Explorer, you can also just restart the Explorer.exe process rather than rebooting your PC as a whole.

Windows Explorer is crucial to the operation of Windows, so killing it will disable most features, apart from the mouse and the desktop, which makes restarting Windows Explorer a tricky task, but you can do so as follows:-


 * 1) Click **Start**.
 * 2) Hold down the [**Ctrl**] + [**Shift**] keys and right-click on a blank area in the bottom right-hand corner of the Start menu. ( The coloured bit )
 * 3) Choose **Exit Explorer** from the menu that pops up.
 * 4) Windows Explorer will be killed and any open Explorer windows plus the taskbar will disappear.
 * 5) Press [**Ctrl**] + [**Shift**] + [**Esc**]. This will open the Task Manager.
 * 6) Click **File**  **> New Task** **Run**.
 * 7) Type without the quotes “**Explorer.exe** “ and click **OK**.

You will see the task bar reappear at the bottom of your screen