• Saik0@lemmy.saik0.com
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      If you kill explorer.exe manually it doesn’t respawn. You have to star the process yourself again.

      Unless something changed in the past year.

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          1 month ago

          No. It’s not. I spun up a vm and killed explorer.exe. How long should I be waiting? Cause I"m several minutes in and explorer hasn’t restarted itself yet. Also tested it on my VR computer (only non-linux physical machine in the house).

          Here I’ll even stream it for you. https://cast.saik0.com. I kill the process at basically 16:00(MST) it’s been 5 minutes now and the stream is going.

          Edit: Over 19 minutes now… Still waiting for it to restart…

          Edit2: Over an hour now… Still waiting for it to automatically restart. BTW the machine is windows 11. Latest patch/update.

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              No, but you’ve stated something that’s factually not true. And with all the shit that’s streamed on the internet, this is nothing near “weird”.

              Sorry that you don’t know what you’re talking about.

              over 3 hours and 20 minutes now by the way… Explorer.exe hasn’t restarted. What you claim has NEVER been the behavior.

              Edit: I’m killing the stream. It’s been over 4:20… I think the point is proven. Still no explorer.exe. Because when you kill the process, it does not restart.

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                1 month ago

                I think pickles got confused from the fact that task manager (afaik) forces you to restart explorer if you try to kill it from there. If you taskkill /f /im it to death, then it stays dead.

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                    30 days ago

                    Wacky, I remember the metro (windows 8 - 10) task manager forcing you to restart it.

                    Edit: Just checked the Windows 11 task manager, the Apps view’s ‘End Task’ button turns into a ‘Restart’ button when Explorer is selected (but the context menu option to end it stays).