Is there a way of just re-starting windows without doing a total reboot in ME? In 98, if you held down the shift key while re-starting only windows re-started. I tried that with ME and it doesn't work. Did Microsoft remove that function in ME or is there a different way to do it? And, if they did remove the function, why?

hello had to look all over for this one second book i looked in had it click,ctrl,alt delete display close porgram box. select explorer,click end task youll imediately see the shut down windows dialog box click cansel after about 5 seconds,windows will inform you that it wasnt able to shut down explorer application. click end task here to finish the job.the task bar and all desk top icons will disapear temporarely than reapear as explorer is reloaded. hope this help:) ••• Resistance is invigorating! •••kill spyware

Thank you Dave, close but no cigar as they used to say. I think what happens is that c:\windows\explorer.exe goes into motion, but there is no reloading of windows per say. It would take a little longer than what appears to be happening by the method you suggested. There is a way to re-load Windows and not go into a full re-boot. When I was using Rambooster it had that option, but I will be darned on how Rambooster did it. Also by your method, resources stay the same and are not refreshed. I think the option was completely done away with when ME was introduced and Rambooster must be using some chain of commands to achieve the re-loading without a full re-boot. Thanks for help.