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I have a very unusual situation in which I am remote desktoping to my Windows 7 PC from my laptop. The Explorer.exe process has been killed so therefore the Start menu etc isn't available. So there fore there is very little I can do with my PC. So I need to restart my PC. How can I restart my PC after the Explorer.exe process has been killed?

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You could go into Task Manager within the remote desktop session by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ESC.

  1. Click File
  2. Click New Task (Run...)
  3. Type explorer.exe and click OK

That will instantly restart the Explorer shell without the need to restart your PC.

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Will CTRL+SHIFT+ESC work when explorer.exe is not running? – firedfly Jan 8 '11 at 15:24
Definitely, yes. You can test this by manually killing the explorer.exe process from Task Manager itself. Close Task Manager... CTRL+SHIFT+ESC... voila. – kez Jan 8 '11 at 15:25
Right click no the task bar and you will find the option : show task manager , follow kez's instruction after that – Shakehar Jan 8 '11 at 15:32
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@Shark - You've kind of missed the point... – Matthieu Cartier Jan 8 '11 at 15:49
@neurolysis- yup i guess i did :) – Shakehar Jan 9 '11 at 6:11
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If you can send a ctrl-alt-del to the remote computer, then you should be able to launch the task manager. From there you can click File->New Task. Launch the command prompt (cmd.exe).

From there, you can restart the computer with a 1 second delay with the following command:

shutdown /r /t 1

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