Re: Windows restart ?

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 00:38, Simon Large
<simon.tortoisesvn_at_googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 15 February 2010 17:52, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 15.02.2010 17:33, Ulf Zibis wrote:
>>> After installing a new version I always read: "... restart Windows... "
>>>
>>> Doesn't it be enough just to restart Windows Explorer (e.g. by closing a
>>> running Windows Explorer instance from Task-Manager)?
>>
>> The desktop is also an explorer process.
>
> Just as another data point the TCVS site claims that TortoiseCVS can
> now be installed without a restart. I don't know how they made that
> work.

Simple: they kill all explorer.exe instances, run the installation,
then create a new process "explorer.exe".

But: good luck if there's another app that has the dlls loaded.
(file-open dialogs, shell icon use, ...)

Stefan

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