• Final Remix
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    I haven’t had to restart to install / uninstall anything since WinME.

    • @[email protected]
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      42 months ago

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

      • Saik0
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        42 months ago

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

          • Saik0
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            02 months ago

            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.

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                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. <removed>. 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.

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                    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.

    • @iopq
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      42 months ago

      Found the guy who never updated his windows since ME

      • Final Remix
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        12 months ago

        What? An OS install isn’t the same as installing / uninstalling something. Xp, 7, 10… I don’t restart when installing shit.

        • @iopq
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          12 months ago

          So you never did windows update

          • Final Remix
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            12 months ago

            That’s not installing something; that’s fundamentally changing the OS… what is happening in this thread?!

            • @iopq
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              02 months ago

              Which is exactly what you can do in linux, live patch the kernel and carry on