[IWE] Nifty Windows Trick
Andrew Grygus
iwe@warhead.org.uk
Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:14:21 -0500 (EST)
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:05:59 -0000, Peter Whysall wrote:
>"Go to Start > Shutdown. When the dialog appears, hold CTRL+ALT+SHIFT and
>press Cancel. Explorer will cleanly unload all of it's resources and
>shutdown. To start it back up, open Task Manager (CTRL+SHIFT+ESC is one way)
>and go to File > New Task and run 'explorer'.
Very useful when you have to disinfect a computer where
Explorer is one of the infected files. Open a command
window, shut down explorer, and run your clean-up program.
On Windows 98 Ctrl+Shift+Esc doesn't work, but since
you have a command window open you can just type
Explorer.
Andrew Grygus
ajg@aaxnet.com