Rebooting Windows without Rebooting
This trick is handy when ever you are using your computer and the system suddenly stops responding or hangs or if for example, you try to delete a file or folder and it says that the item you want to delete is in use by Windows or any other application and just denies deletion.
You can do a pseudo “Reboot” that will be much faster than a warm reboot or restart.
Just do the following:
1. Press CTRL + ALT + DEL once
2. Once the task manager window appears, go to the “Processes” tab and click once on “explorer.exe” and then click on “end process”. The explorer will close and the desktop icons will temporarily disappear, but don’t worry. It is perfectly normal.
3. Now, click on the “File” menu, choose “New Task (Run…)” and type “explorer.exe”. After that, click “OK”.
Your computer should be no longer hanged and file / folder deletion should be allowed now.
If the problem persists after this procedure, then it is not considered normal and might be caused by an uncommon reason like virus, adware, a new installed application, problems with the registry or problems with the hardware.
Talking about this topic, if you ever need to reinstall Windows XP because a malfunction of a possibly corrupted file(s) and don’t want to loose your information and / or settings, there is a method that we already tested and works nice. It will replace all system files by the original ones, without touching your Windows settings and / or third party installed files. It was successfully tested on Windows Xp Pro Sp-2 and the Windows installation CD is needed. An alternative that will also work fine, is if you have a full copy of that CD in your hard disk.
To do the fix, just go to [START], [RUN], type the following and then press [ENTER]:
[drive]:/[folder]/i386/winnt32 /unattend
Above, you will need to replace the “[drive]” with the drive letter where the “i386″ folder is placed. If there is no sub-folder, just omit the “[folder]” part.
A typical example, when you are using the CD, and th CD drive letter is “D”, is as follows:
D:/i386/winnt32 /unattend
As the end part suggests, it will run unattended until it restarts Windows.
Thanks for reading.
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Hey thanks for that! Needed to do a reinstall and that worked like a sharm!
Your welcome. I’m glad I could help.