Meera was a freelance graphic designer, racing against a deadline. Her client needed three mockups by noon. She had two done—and then it happened.

In addition to using the command line, there are other methods to restart Windows Explorer:

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe

She took a breath and typed:

This achieve the same result as the CMD method but follows standard PowerShell syntax.

start explorer.exe

Panic began to set in. Restart the whole computer? That would take five minutes of rebooting, reopening apps, and finding her place again. She’d miss the deadline.