How to Kill Windows Explorer Processes Easily in Windows Vista

The normal way to terminate Windows Explorer’s processes is to go to Task Manager, look for Explorer.exe under Processes tab, then right clicking on it and select End Process, or using Taskkill command. This actually involves few steps in killing only a single Explorer.exe. If you have multiple Explorer processes running at the same time, then you need to repeat above steps to kill each of them. Now Windows Vista offers you an easy and faster way to kill all of running explorer processes with only few simple clicks.

To kill explorer processes in faster way, follow below steps:

1. Click Start button.

2. Hold CTRL + SHIFT then right click on any area within the red circle as shown below.
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3. Exit Explorer will appear in the pop up menu, click on it to terminate all running explorer processes.
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The trick works slightly different in Windows XP. Check out the simple exit explorer trick.

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4 Responses to “How to Kill Windows Explorer Processes Easily in Windows Vista”

  1. Davids
    December 4th, 2009 12:14
    4

    I have two unresponsive programs, windows media player and windows live mail, and I have tried everything, including exiting from explorer. But, lo and behold, when I re-started explorer , desktop etc., the same unresponsive processes are still there! Any suggestions?

  2. Morph
    July 14th, 2009 14:36
    3

    You can also terminate processes from the command line using taskkill and tasklist process coupling

  3. HARRIS
    February 13th, 2009 04:48
    2

    HI.
    WE HAVE Window Xp HOME AND WANT TO CONVORD IN Window Xp Professional SO PLS TELL US ALL INFORMATION ABOUT THIS PROCES AS SOO AS POSSIBLE SO THAT WE PAY DEFRENCE PAYMENT AND CONVORD Window Xp Professional LEAGLEY

  4. kale
    February 12th, 2009 02:29
    1

    you can click anywhere, but a button,
    works even on border ;)

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