How to Restart Windows’ Explorer.exe (Along With the Taskbar and Start Menu)

If your taskbar, system tray, or Start menu acts up, you might be tempted to restart your PC. Instead, you can usually just restart Windows Explorer. Windows makes it pretty easy whether you’re using Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8, or Windows 7.

Windows Explorer (Explorer.exe) is a program manager process that provides the graphical interface you use to interact with most of Windows—the Start menu, taskbar, notification area, and File Explorer. Occasionally, any of these pieces that make up the Windows graphical shell can start acting strangely or even hang. Just like you can close and restart an app that’s acting up, you can also close and restart Windows Explorer.

Restarting Windows Explorer can also be handy if you’ve just installed a new app or applied a Registry tweak that would normally require you to restart your PC. Restarting Explorer doesn’t always work in those cases, but it’s easy enough to try it first if you want to avoid a full restart.

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How to Make a Block Quote in Google Docs

When you create an essay, research paper, or article where you’re including a long quotation, it’s key to format it correctly. A block quote is a quotation in your document that is indented and begins on its own line to break it away from the rest of the text. This highlights the quote and makes stand out from the remaining parts of the document.

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How to Get a Hyperlink to a Cell or Range in Google Sheets

While you can easily share a workbook in Google Sheets, you may want to direct someone to a specific portion of a sheet. Obtaining a link to an exact cell, range, column, or row to share or save is easy.

Grabbing a URL to a specific section of a sheet can be quite useful. You can let an employee know they need to update something, call out an error in the data to a coworker, or simply save the link as a reference for yourself.

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How to Close a Google Form

When you want to stop receiving responses for a form, survey, or quiz, it’s a good idea to close it. This way, nobody else can complete or submit the form. You can stop taking responses and close a form manually on the fly or automatically based on something like the date. Using a Google Forms feature or an add-on, you can decide just when to close your form.

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How to Manage App Permissions on Android

Android permissions used to be a mess, but modern versions of Android have simplified them greatly. Now, you grant apps access to certain features as it needs them. You can also manually revoke permissions from any app. You don’t need to root, install a custom ROM, or switch to an iPhone to do this anymore.

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