tip for testing your registry tweaks

[aknott]

Hi all,

When you want to make and test a registry tweak

You have to reboot

or

kill explorer.exe in the taskmanager and restart it to view your changes

I found a usefull vbscript which kill all explorer.exe process and restart it automatically

save the following as killexplorer.vbs in yout system32 folder

On Error GoTo 0

For Each Process in GetObject("winmgmts:"). _

ExecQuery ("select * from Win32_Process where name='explorer.exe'")

Process.terminate(0)

Next

and then add the following in the registry

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\re-init]

@="Reinit explorer"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\re-init\command]

@="wscript.exe \"c:\\windows\\system32\\killexplorer.vbs\""

now when you do a reg tweak to test it just right click on my computer icon and select

Reinit explorer

Et voila...

[nolookingca]

here's a simple batch file that'll do the job.

@ECHO OFF
TITLE Restarting explorer....
tskill explorer.exe
explorer.exe
exit

save this as restartexplorer.cmd

this can also be used with the right click thing detailed above.