{"id":330,"date":"2007-01-31T09:53:01","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T16:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/archives\/330"},"modified":"2014-12-04T13:39:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T20:39:05","slug":"reboot-windows-in-5-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/general-interest\/reboot-windows-in-5-seconds\/","title":{"rendered":"Reboot Windows in 5 Seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"

I rarely reboot my PC and leave it run 24\/7. It seems like whenever I can tell need a reboot, I’m too busy to take the time.<\/p>\n

I have 4 gigs of ram on a dual core Intel CPU, but I have literally dozens of tasks or windows open at any given time.<\/p>\n

This morning,\u00a0 my pc was running very slowly, (just killing me), and I needed a reboot. Remembering my own advice from this summer, I rebooted Windows without rebooting<\/a> and so I’m writing this instead with all my free time.<\/p>\n

Here are the steps to instantly speed up your PC, when explorer.exe is using too much of your memory, and you think you need a reboot.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Press Ctrl-Alt-Del keys simultaneously once to bring up Windows Task Manager<\/li>\n
  2. Select the Processes tab<\/li>\n
  3. Press MEM Usage (which sorts your programs by their resource consumption)<\/li>\n
  4. Scroll to the bottom (the biggest memory hogs), and find explorer.exe. (You can also sort my Image name, and find it alphabetically)<\/li>\n
  5. Highlight explorer.exe. gape in amazement at the amount of memory it’s using, and\u00a0 and press the End Process button.<\/li>\n
  6. In the Task Manager Window (which is still there) go to File – New Task<\/li>\n
  7. Type explorer.exe\u00a0 and hit OK<\/li>\n
  8. Get back to work!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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