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Sometimes, odd things might happen on Windows 7. One of those odd things I had encountered recently was the Start button refused to open up and stopped working for some strange reasons. I could always reboot the machine and had the problem fixed, but I was in the midst of doing something important. Fixing this problem without needing to reboot my machine was easy enough. I had to:
- Open up task manager (Ctrl + Shift + Esc)
- Highlight explorer.exe
- End process of Explorer.exe (i.e., kill the Explorer.exe process)
- On the top menu, click on File >> New Task (Run…)
- Type in Explorer.exe for new task and click OK.
After doing the steps above, I was able to use the Start button again! The steps above could also work for some other problems too, because often killing an old process of a task or a program and renew such a process would actually help to get rid of the problem!
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