Is it possible to make a shortcut that restarts a program?

Short version: Can I make a shortcut that restarts a program?

Long version: I absolutely love Windows 10 and am so glad I upgraded! The only bad thing about it that I can find so far is that every once in a while the start menu and Cortana will stop working. Well, I did some research and found out that if you go into the task manager and restart "explorer.exe" that it reloads the start menu and Cortana so I tried it and it worked! The only problem now is that I don't want to have to go into the task manager and restart explorer.exe every time so I was wondering... is it possible to make a shortcut that restarts explorer.exe?

Thanks!

Whatever you do don't use a script to restart explorer.exe and right click and run it as Admin. It messes up all your permissions.

Anyway this powershell will stop (and restart) explorer.exe: stop-process -processname explorer

halasz said:

Whatever you do don't use a script to restart explorer.exe and right click and run it as Admin. It messes up all your permissions.

Anyway this powershell will stop (and restart) explorer.exe: stop-process -processname explorer

By default a process will run with the rights and permissions of the process that started it and almost everything you run will be directly or indirectly started by explorer.exe. That would be convenient, but not very secure. That is why the warning.

SEC07 said:

Short version: Can I make a shortcut that restarts a program?

Long version: I absolutely love Windows 10 and am so glad I upgraded! The only bad thing about it that I can find so far is that every once in a while the start menu and Cortana will stop working. Well, I did some research and found out that if you go into the task manager and restart "explorer.exe" that it reloads the start menu and Cortana so I tried it and it worked! The only problem now is that I don't want to have to go into the task manager and restart explorer.exe every time so I was wondering... is it possible to make a shortcut that restarts explorer.exe?

Thanks!

Read this: I set up a toggle to start/stop airprint. a couple of good solutions in there, Batch file are still useful!

makes me wonder ,, if explorer.exe is not working how you gona run the batch file or what ever you create ...

seems to me you need to try and fix what ever is causing explorer to crash..
maybe start with opening a admin command prompt and typing in , sfc /scannow to see if it finds any thing

caperjack said:

makes me wonder ,, if explorer.exe is not working how you gona run the batch file or what ever you create ...

seems to me you need to try and fix what ever is causing explorer to crash..
maybe start with opening a admin command prompt and typing in , sfc /scannow to see if it finds any thing

The start menu and Cortana not working seems to be a common problem. Everything else is working fine. Any idea what could be wrong?