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    [–] [email protected] 43 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

    I haven't had a DLL issue in Windows in like 20 years.

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago
    [–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

    I haven't had to restart to install / uninstall anything since WinME.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

    Only thing I can think of is installations that include drivers. And even then, not all of them.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

    Anything that hooks into explorer.exe tends to require windows to reboot.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

    Or just kill explorer and let it instantly reload.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

    If you kill explorer.exe manually it doesn't respawn. You have to star the process yourself again.

    Unless something changed in the past year.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

    Nah it's auto restarting since at least windows 10 (2015)

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

    No. It's not. I spun up a vm and killed explorer.exe. How long should I be waiting? Cause I"m several minutes in and explorer hasn't restarted itself yet. Also tested it on my VR computer (only non-linux physical machine in the house).

    Here I'll even stream it for you. . I kill the process at basically 16:00(MST) it's been 5 minutes now and the stream is going.

    Edit: Over 19 minutes now... Still waiting for it to restart...

    Edit2: Over an hour now... Still waiting for it to automatically restart. BTW the machine is windows 11. Latest patch/update.

    Edit3: pulling the stream. Ran it for over 4 hours. The point is proven. It doesn't restart itself.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

    I'm not your tech support, and it's reallllly weird that you're doing this.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

    No, but you've stated something that's factually not true. And with all the shit that's streamed on the internet, this is nothing near "weird".

    Sorry that you don't know what you're talking about.

    over 3 hours and 20 minutes now by the way... Explorer.exe hasn't restarted. What you claim has NEVER been the behavior.

    Edit: I'm killing the stream. It's been over 4:20... I think the point is proven. Still no explorer.exe. Because when you kill the process, it does not restart.