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How to restart explorer without taskkill

Apr 26, 2020 See the question and my original answer on StackOverflow

You can use the Restart Manager API:

The Restart Manager stops applications in the following order, and after the applications have been updated, restarts applications that have been registered for restart in the reverse order.

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