Monday, August 25, 2008

Avoid restart of PC after new software installation

It is often we get a message for restarting computer when a new software or hardware is installed .Actually on restart some new data (trial or registration etc.) is entered into registry or registry is reloaded .If you are in between a work or lazy to restart your PC , follow these steps to reload or refresh windows registry.






Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete
Now windows task manager appears , select processes from that
Click on explorer and End Process
If shutdown menu appear , cancel it
After sometime it will show an error message . Click on End Task.







If error message is not appearing
On task manager select Applications, then New Task
Browse the new location of new task from C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe and click ok
Now Windows will reload explorer and if there any new registry settings.

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