Heya,

I have run into this in the past, but I wasn't able to figure it out until now. It seems like restarting explorer.exe only works properly if the powershell process and OS architecture match (ie. powershell is run as a 64 bit process on a 64 bit OS).

Do you remember if this was also the case when you ran into this issue?

Thanks so much for getting back to me so quickly!

Yes, it is a 64bit process running on a 64bit OS. I re-ran it just to be sure and I get the explorer.exe crash with no reinitialization again.

Hmm that's interesting. Do you run any antivirus other than Windows Defender?

Also, could you be so kind to try it again for me with the latest version of the script? I have added a check that prevents the issue I discussed. It shouldn't do anything if the process and OS match, but I just want to confirm if Windows isn't up to any funny business 🙃

Yes, we run Crowdstrike. I could try running it before I install crowdstrike to see if that resolves it.

I pulled the latest version of the script and had the same thing happen. I'll run it before crowdstrike is installed and see if that makes a difference then get back to you. Thanks again!

Thanks!

I have found a different way to restart the explorer process that may work better. Could you try running this for me in powershell: Stop-Process -processName: Explorer

Explorer should automatically be restarted in this case, the current method the script uses relies on manually stopping explorere with taskkill /f /im explorer.exe and restarting it with Start-Process explorer.exe.

Stop-Process -processName: Explorer asked me to confirm but then it restarted explorer without issue. Not sure if the confirm will be an issue in your script or not.

That's great! It looks like we can force our way past the confirmation 😄

I'll update the script to use this method.

P.S. I really appreciate the quick response and help with figuring out this issue!

Just pulled the newest version and ran again, explorer restarted perfectly! Thanks so much for your help!

That's great to hear! Thank you for your help aswell!

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