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. <removed>. 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.
Edit3: pulling the stream. Ran it for over 4 hours. The point is proven. It doesn’t restart itself.
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.
Only thing I can think of is installations that include drivers. And even then, not all of them.
Anything that hooks into explorer.exe tends to require windows to reboot.
Or just kill explorer and let it instantly reload.
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.
Nah it’s auto restarting since at least windows 10 (2015)
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. <removed>. 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.
Edit3: pulling the stream. Ran it for over 4 hours. The point is proven. It doesn’t restart itself.
I’m not your tech support, and it’s reallllly weird that you’re doing this.
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.
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 /imit to death, then it stays dead.