How to cleanly stop Explorer.exe on Windows Vista

re: How to cleanly stop Explorer.exe on Windows Vista

thor — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 22:16:20 GMT

Thanks you,thats is cool.

Maybe i can escape for explorer.exe

If you know a program for xp pro

re: How to cleanly stop Explorer.exe on Windows Vista

evarlast — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 05:03:36 GMT

I was looking for this Yesterday and I googled and I googled and I could not find the answer.

Thank you so much!

re: How to cleanly stop Explorer.exe on Windows xp

mike76 — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:51:38 GMT

search in regedit explorer.exe exact string

you can see some value key

ex.c:\windows\esplore 1dl% (or similar)

you change value and delete strange string "1dl%"(or similar, i don'remember exact string)

after you change this value key press f3 and it found other value key ex.c:\windows\esplore 1dl% (or similar)you change value and delete strange string "1dl%"(or similar, repeat i don'remember exact string)when the search is finish reeboot system. FINISH

[Aaron Margosis] Deleting random "strange strings" from the registry sounds like incredibly bad advice to me. What are you trying to accomplish?

re: How to cleanly stop Explorer.exe on Windows Vista

mike76 — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:55:40 GMT

[Aaron Margosis]

I'm not american i speak english not very well!

but i know when desktop and taskbar don't run you can repair this pc from regedit.exe. You can lanch

regedit Through taskmanager (file - new task - regedit). after you serch in regedit the word explorer.exe. The registry search found some key with the word explorer.exe near this word is added

a strange string (ex. %SystemRoot%\Explorer.exe /idlist,%I,%L) one of this key is changed and explorer don't function if yuo cancel "idlist,%I,%L" after reboot explorer will be

reset. you can backup your registry firt and

try this metod (tested under xp)

re: How to cleanly stop Explorer.exe on Windows Vista

mikew — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:16:50 GMT

this is sort of unrelated to your orig post

but have you checked out suDown? and how does it compare to your MakeMeAdmin scripts for XP?

http://sudown.sourceforge.net/

re: Window Explorer of Vista repeatedly restart

Vidjia — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 21:33:45 GMT

Hi all,

I am in Budapest. Two day ago, my vista was infected by a strange virus. I have no solution of this though i set up the "viewers' outsanding trojan remover".

The problem is that the there is an information pop up showing that the "Window exploer doesn't work", then another pop up shows "Window Exploer restarting", then 5 seconds later, they show up again, again, indefinitely. Every time, they show up, i can not go to window explorer or work any other progam.

Please help me. My assignment will be due this Wednesday.

vidjia

re: How to cleanly stop Explorer.exe on Windows Vista

Gurijala — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 02:28:22 GMT

Hi Aaron,

Nice tip on Explorer.exe.

Thank you.

re: How to cleanly stop Explorer.exe on Windows Vista

saj — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:44:44 GMT

unfortunately: my vista business pro crashes so all the taskbar goes messed up, and: no chance to kill explorer process (no such process) and unable to run it again as in task man all the menu is unavailable...

re: How to cleanly stop Explorer.exe on Windows Vista

Kevin — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:03:15 GMT

Your fix seems to have worked Aaron. Good job!

Перезапуск Explorer в Windows Vista и Windows Server 2008

Tr-Tr-Mitya — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:46:37 GMT

Давным-давно, до выхода Vista, разработчикам Shell Extensions иногда необходимо было выгрузить Explorer...

re: How to cleanly stop Explorer.exe on Windows Vista

Vlitist — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:27:30 GMT

Do you happen to have the rundll command to achieve this? I'd like to script it because tskill and pskill only kill explorer for a second and then it auto restarts.

re: How to cleanly stop Explorer.exe on Windows Vista

anonymous — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:28:23 GMT

I wonder where your problem with the shell extensions is. The Explorer shell itself already is trivially vulnerable, so there's no reduction in security.

[Aaron Margosis] In the context of this post... there is a difference between security vuln running as a standard user vs. running as admin...

re: How to cleanly stop Explorer.exe on Windows Vista

Brian — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:38:16 GMT

Aaron, I have tried this and I do get the shell to open as an admin acct but I still cannot open network shares that require elevated access. Any thoughts?

re: How to cleanly stop Explorer.exe on Windows Vista

mike g — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:51:44 GMT

aaron...i have had a lot of experience & exasperation with xp...new toshiba w/vista home premium preloaded...3+ months now & am still encountering problems w/vista...latest was following an auto download from windows, & got in a never-ending loop saying it was in stage 3 of update & don't turn off the computer...subsequent to system restart my icons etc. went missing...previously i was able to use trayicons.reg to recapture...not this time....after several days & many attempts i finally reached success with your solution...can't thank you enough man...why is it that explorer gets so lost ???...by the way, before trying your solution i created a new user & the new user had icons that i as admin could not turn on !!!...thanks again!!!

re: How to cleanly stop Explorer.exe on Windows Vista

bells — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:44:31 GMT

Please help!

I'm running Windows Vista Home Premium, on a Compaq Presario F500 laptop, with an AMD Sempron 3400+ processor. Only had it a couple of weeks. I'm a complete n00b.

When I try to move files or delete to recycle bin, all the windows (usually "Calculating time remaining") freeze and wont disappear on their own. The task is complete, but I still I have to open Task Manager and end the task manually. This happens every time.

I have tried defrag, scanning and disk cleaners, all to no avail.

There is an easy fix to this, I expect, but as a n00b, I'm not that techy yet.

Any, simple to understand, advice would be appreciated.

Cheers.

re: How to cleanly stop Explorer.exe on Windows Vista

Bob L — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:48:14 GMT

Unfortunately Windows 7 seems to have changed the rules a bit. Nothing I have found and tried so far seems to get Windows Explorer to run with administrator rights turned on.

Has anyone figured out a way to get Windows Explorer in Windows 7 to run with admin rights?

Thanks!

re: How to cleanly stop Explorer.exe on Windows Vista

Joe Federer — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:11:02 GMT

This doesn't work in windows 7. It starts the explorer process under the logged-in user (ie: non-elevated).

Like the person above me, I can't for the life of me get an elevated explorer window (and we all know how useful that is in ACTUALLY administering a users machine) without focing the user to log off and logging in as an administrative account.

Is it just me or is this going backwards and counter to the whole ethos of least privleges?