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Explorestart

Explorestart

simple tool to restart explorer.exe on Windows

WARNING: This tool kills explorer.exe and therefore all running data transfers etc. Use at your own risk.

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Name Description OS Arch Download
explorestart-portable-v1.0.exe Portable Windows 10 or higher x86 and x64 Download
explorestart-setup-v1.0.exe Setup Windows 10 or higher x86 and x64 Download

Anti-Virus false positives

Some anti-virus softwares are detecting Explorestart as virus. These warnings can be ignored and you can add exceptions for Explorestart in your anti-virus software.

This has probably has to do with these reasons:

VirusTotal result

e.g. Microsft Windows-Security:

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