why is not windows 11?

If you accidentally ended explorer.exe and don't know how to fix it, press Ctrl+Alt+Delete, then click 'Task Manager', then 'File', then 'Run new task', then type 'explorer', then click 'OK'.

It's funny how ending / restarting explorer.exe fixes a lot of problems especially in windows 11 (currently)

I actually do close explorer.exe when I'm running processes that require too many resources, it won't save much, but it helps.

never in my life would i have the balls to stop literally any windows background task with task manager

9:50 I guess you could say that... slipped through the cracks

Up until a few years ago when I bought a decent computer, I had a 4GB RAM Win10 laptop which I always used with explorer off just to conserve as much RAM as possible and make it at least a bit faster. I used CMD for everything. I made a custom prompt in CMD which showed me the date and time. When I really needed an explorer window, I had a trick: start control.exe (Control Panel) and then just type in the path for whatever folder I needed in the address bar of that window. That'd bring up an explorer window without starting the taskbar and desktop, which would have taken ages to load.

I always ended explorer.exe for that extra fps for my older laptop, always helped a tiny bit.

In Windows 11, with StartAllBack activated, something weird happenned - The wallpaper will changes into your accent color that you used before (for me, brown) - The minimized window is messed, maybe because it has rounded corners - Animation, mica, etc still works - Same as another systems, classic Alt + Tab dialog will apprears if you pressed that button

I tried it out, on NT 4.0, it the same as Vista; minimising programs makes them end up as small ribbons where the taskbar usually would be, and on 2000, it's the same as with XP, but the desktop background disappears and reverts to the colour you specified for it.

I wonder what led Microsoft to think that making the process for the desktop shell and the process for the file explorer the same was a good idea.

i personally think that ending explorer.exe is a decent way to refresh windows interfaces in case they froze

I knew this without trying, i just understand how windows works, especially Windows 8.1 and i love ur channel

0:00 Title 0:05 Windows 95, 98, ME 0:24 Windows XP 1:57 Windows Vista(Aero) 4:08 Windows 7(Aero) 5:29 Windows 8.1(Aero) 11:28 Windows 10[21h2] 13:49 End screen

i actually knew about the classic alt tab menu mainly because windows 10 broke so it was in certain places giving the 8.1 gray theme Locking and unlocking the device gives you the light blue version

i liked the attention to detail in this video! i clicked to find out what it would do in windows 9x, as all NT versions have a similar shell. didn't expect to actually learn anything about every major NT version LOL i found it interesting how the desktop background stopped staying around once 8.1 (and by extension 8) hit. i guess the shell was either refactored or completely rewritten for the start screen. also didn't know there was a difference between metro apps and UWP apps - thought they were all just UWP. is windows 10 backwards compatible with metro apps (and is win8 somehow forwards compatible with UWP? assuming they're built on the same foundations)?

I actually knew what would happen with windows 10 cuz i accidentally did it while ending background tasks to free up memory. Luckily it wasn't that hard to fix, just open cmd with a shortcut and start explorer from there.

So the explorer.exe is like a built-in program to show up icon and taskbar for easy access Kinda like old windows

I miss Win 7. It was my favorite.

I use to do this back in the day with a game booster. 12MB of RAM was huge when you only had 512MB.

Explorer.exe actually has an undocumented quit function built into the shutdown dialog. Try pressing Cancel on that dialog while holding down Ctrl, Alt, and Shift.

You should try writing a program that just kills explorer on 95/98/ME to get around the check that opens the shutdown dialog

Windows 8 was truly one of the operating systems of all time

when I wanted to play a heavier game on my old computer, I opened it and just left the task manager open, and closed the explorer, so I could have more ram dedicated to the game.

When you end Explorer on modern versions of Windows like 8,10 or 11 taskbar icons and homescreen wallpaper ALL of them dissapear the wallpaper is changed to the asset color of your preference

I am actually wondering.. Where do you get all of your virtual machines, if they are? I'm really fascinated by this kind of stuff, and I want to complete my OS collection in VirtualBox. I await your response. Also, keep up the great videos! :)

I actually once closed it not knowing what it was, and had to find a way to manually start it again, which is probably easier to all of you than I make it out to be, but you all are also maybe 100 times more knowledgable of this stuff.

those mini bars from windows vista and 7 remind me of those toolbars fron windows 3.1

Windows 8.1 has the most strangest behaviour when we end explorer.exe by far

One time my computer's File Exploerer was corrupted, so when it started it looked like that. (Black background, no desktop, no taskbar) I had to reinstall windows from a USB to fix it.

Explorer.exe fact: If you run explorer.exe (meaning starting a new process) while explorer.exe is running (ot sometimes because of a failure that I still can't explain) it opens the Documents (or whatever is opened) 📂 (at least in XP but idk if this applies to other OSes)

Some big, corrupt or damaged programs or archives does crash Explorer.exe, but it's easy to put it back on via Task manager.

Thanksss brooo thankss a lot

Vista brings back some Windows Chicago (Windows 95 Beta) vibes with the minimized programs turning into little bars like in Chicago (Build 73)!!!

9:46 Wow that timer really looks like squid game

Did this by accident recently cuz file explorer was lagging lmao

u skiped win 8 and went straght to 8.1 try again

First interacted with explorer.exe when my aoe II the forgotten won't run on aero windows 7 so have to kill explorer task to run it in the normal colors. Great video btw satisfying 😁😁

Never thought killing explorer could make a video like this. Pretty cool.

Thanks lifesaver ✨

I used Winaero Tweaker to add the "Restart Explorer" option to the desktop context menu.

This channel is underrated!

i remember sometimes on vista explorer.exe would straight up be deleted on some installations, unsure why. probably infected on those installations without notice cuz i was kind of an idiot as a kid unless vista just did weird stuff like that as well

if your turn off explorer.exe on windows 10 and windows 11, it automatically restored or aleast it restarted taskbar on its own within few seconds

0:31 i thought the cursor was an ant on my phone screen

I still don't understand why Micro$oft decided to make the wallpaper dissapear on Windows 8+

i used to do this at school and trigger my classmates cuz they didnt know how to put back the taskbar in its place

Never thought about the File Explorer task shutdown, but somehow though about the This PC task shutdown...

Your channel its so underrated if we talk about subs

you also cannot Turn up the volume when explorer.exe is end task.

I did in windows 11, It does nothing or the screen will be turned off for a sec and starts again. After newer updates in windows 11 (new patchs), there is only restart button instead of end task button only for windows expolrer.

FUN FACT: you can run explorer acciosated programs with explorer.exe ended (with command prompt in task manager)

I knew about the classic alt tab switcher, because there is a registry tweak that always enables classic Alt Tab.

i remember ending explorer when it froze and couldnt close and being scared because i suddenly couldnt see anything on my windows 10

In ANY VERSION of Windows, you can close explorer.exe from the task manager and start a new task with the same name, it's a quick restart when your memory it's "tired". You're welcome.

finally minimal window manager like on windows using this method

Cody Can't Eat This Confirmed

explorer.exe: Run it back! **runs** it's fixed now!

When I minimise Google Chrome with killed explorer, strange thing happen

Win95/98/me having the shutdown menu open up is probably a remenant off win1/2/3, As in those versions, To end you're windows session you had to close explorer or something, which would make sense to why its bringing up the shutdown menu in 9x versions, Probably a leftover from the older versions, Due to 95 being based off 3.1/3.11, which still has code for checking wether explorer.exe is trying to close (Which in 3 it would ask to confirm), Probably from my guess is that they changed the confirmation window into the shutdown menu, And used a hacky way off triggering it (Ending explorer.exe).

I wonder why in newer windows things depend on so much other things

I keep accidentally doing this thinking its just the file explorer that im closing.

This is actually a good tip for potatoe pcs, just open your game and end explorer, when you are done just re-open explorer

What happens if you end explorer.exe in Windows 10 but in tablet mode?

What did you think of the music?

I remember shutting the file explorer to save some ram, but ended up crashing my pc 💀

I used this tactic on my old laptop, it reduces a bit of cpu usage

ONE OF THE MUSICS ARE IN A GAME CALLED 3DASH

I wonder for 7 and 8 and vista when you minimised windows if it would be different if you had the taskbar in another loaction

On Windows 11(maybe 10 as well) if you end dwm.exe you get aero (edit: aero basic ty world of oses for the correction) back for a few seconds

when I was little there was a bug that hit my netbook that caused explorer to not load and i thought Windows broke, until I learned CTRL+SHIFT+ESC and the Run dialog box, with the feeling of being a pro hacker being present (i was 9 at the time)

Wait, I use Linux, why am I watching this? Xd (Good video, bro).

There is a chance of getting explorer ended after you open your pc, this happened to me and it was horrible lol

what happens in older NT versions like NT 4.0? it seems like DOS versions are what causes the shutdown

I used to end this process accidentally a lot when my PC lagged.

I installed process hacker and accidentally suspended explorer.exe, everything was just frozen

Windows 8.1 was one of the best windows versions of all time

UWP = Universal Windows Platform

I actually have ended it before thinking it meant file explorer

if you end exploler.exe on your friends pc,they will panic so much if they don't know how to bring it back

explore exes from different versions of windows on different versions of windows

I still wonder why windows let's you end task or delete important OS things

So I have a disc for an old game called Ceaser 3. Whenever I try to start it for some reason it makes the entire desktop go black and the only way to fix it is to eject the disc. Could anyone explain what is happening?

I used to close explorer to get a little more ram from my pc back in 2004

What happens if you end explorer.exe while in Tablet Mode?

I didn't do Windows 11 in this video because Windows 11 wasn't released at the time of making this video. I have since done Windows 11 in a different video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n7thab2Ft7Czep8.html

when explorer crashes on my old windows 98 pc it just removes the background

i used to have to do this a lot with my windows 11 laptop because it was so buggy! thankfully with my new pc it hasn't done crap like this

One time I was looking at some files and the File Explorer window was not responding, so I opened task manager and ended explorer.exe… I thought my computer broke

I made the file explorer stop by mistake in windows 11 it gives a white screen

In windows 10/11 only lets you restart it, idk if previous ones also can't let you close it.

Try now with Windows 11 + server and Beta versions

Wait how this happened in win10 when i turn off explorer.exe through task menager i only won't able to acces it and nothing else happened

i remember doing that last week

I remember explorer.exe crashing all the time in vista

I actualy did it on windows 11 and it removed the searchbar and things, but i did manage to restart it up again using the "run a program" button and locating to explorer.exe

One time i ended explorer.exe on windows 10 and the task bar and desktop went bye bye then went back.

On windows 10 ive only ever had to restart explorer once cause the taskbar froze

Strange. For some reason on my windows 10 pc, ending explorer restarts the entire program imstead.

I have end task file explorer in my win 11 First the pc screen completly white but you just need to turn of the pc by press the start button in case and then open it restart and your pc completly fine