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    [–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I haven't had to restart to install / uninstall anything since WinME.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

    Found the guy who never updated his windows since ME

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

    What? An OS install isn't the same as installing / uninstalling something. Xp, 7, 10... I don't restart when installing shit.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Only thing I can think of is installations that include drivers. And even then, not all of them.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Anything that hooks into explorer.exe tends to require windows to reboot.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Or just kill explorer and let it instantly reload.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Nah it's auto restarting since at least windows 10 (2015)

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

    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. . 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.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

    I'm not your tech support, and it's reallllly weird that you're doing this.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

    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.

    Edit: I'm killing the stream. It's been over 4:20... I think the point is proven. Still no explorer.exe. Because when you kill the process, it does not restart.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] -1 points 7 hours ago

    I killed it from task manager though.

    "End task"