Actually, logging out and in again should be sufficient.

"philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> "b4thesky" <b4thesky@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>> Hi folks,
>> HELP!!!!! I was playing a game and my computer froze, and remembering a
>> tutorial I read once, I opened the task manager, and selected explore.exe
> in
>> processes and pressed the end task button. Then I selected new task,
> typed
>> explorer.exe in and pressed ok. My startup menu and toolbar was supposed
> to
>> come back , but they didn't. Please advise me on what to do now. Many
> thanks
>> in advance!!!!
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>> Over and out
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>
> hit control alt delete
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> then shut down
>
> when you restart things should be normal
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>