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Hello
I want to close the explorer.exe process with


But the explorer.exe starts automatically.
Why?

Erich

Why, exactly, are you trying to close explorer.exe?!?

You do realize that it's the basis of the shell you're running, right? It's protected from process killing for a good reason.

My guess is that this is due to code behind Process, Close. Explorer.exe can be closed via task manager without it automatically restarting so perhaps there is an alternative way to close the process. You could try calling PSKill with the run command.

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AFAIK to kill explorer means to reinitialize/refresh the system environment, isn't it (TBH, I don't know if AHK's EnvUpdate provides the same functionality ) ?

A colleague at my work told me, that he needs to kill the process and asked me if I know a tool/program to do this. I dont know why he wants to kill the process.

I tried it with AHK and was astonished about the behavior, because if I kill explorer.exe via the taskmanager, it does not restart.


I think we will try pskill.

Thanks for your answers

Perhaps it works with the WinKill Command...

http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/WinKill.htm

Did anyone ever figure out what worked?

I need to close down explorer aswell, i'm helping a friend make a script that will enable to run his computer without explorer running..

Any help would be appriciated

if you don´t want the explorer as shell,
simply tell windows, you want another shell:

Not that much into how that would work. I'm simply trying to close explorer as if i had done it manually through ctrl+alt+del. Doing it with process, close results in it closing but then immediately restarting afterwards.

Thanks for your help though.

The registry entry that determines whether explorer will automatically restart is in the same path that Z_Gecko pointed out (the Local branch). It's called AutoRestartShell. Set it to 0 for off, 1 for on. I used this in my IE Cache Delete script, because explorer is usually the process that keeps files "in use" and prevents deleting them.

Awesome, thanks alot! will test it out

maybe this:

Setting AutoRestartShell to 0 did the trick

Thanks for your help everyone.