How do I delete Explorer?

[joule]

I've had Firefox now for quite some time, and I wanted to delete Explorer. First off, should I do it? Secondly, how do I do it?

I noticed that it is using up a lot of memory in Task Manager.

 

[The Dark Elf]

explorer.exe is windows

IExplorer.exe is the browser part of it


so no, deleting explorer.exe is a bad idea, unless its the trojan version.. or your running linux, then you shouldn't probably have something like that running heh.

 

[joule]

explorer.exe is windows

IExplorer.exe is the browser part of it


so no, deleting explorer.exe is a bad idea, unless its the trojan version.. or your running linux, then you shouldn't probably have something like that running heh.

Oh. :O
Thanks for clearing that up for me. :E I'll leave it.

 

[RTFMy]

Yea, Explorer.exe is basically the GUI of Windows..

Not like Billy's GUI is very "original" though :O

 

[Ames]

You could end the process...saves a bit of memory. When you want it back, just run explorer.exe in your Task Manager.

 

[Washuu]

I know some linux people when they really want to play a video game that's not supported by linux or cedega, they run a stripped down copy of windows without explorer, and use their own shell built just for that game.

 

[Hazar]

basically: you don't.

 

[Phisionary]

explorer.exe provides the file-browser, the start menu, and the desktop parts of the user interface. AFAIK programs will run still run if you slose it, but none of the sbove parts will show up.

If you want to uninstall Internet Explorer, and get it off your hard-drive, someone has mentioned to me a program? called XP-lite. Probably just for XP , this will remove many windows components that ms does not allow you to remove, normally. I haven't used it and don't know much about it though. Mostly for people who want to minimise the microsof in their microsoft windows. Seems like a needless PIA to me, but meh....

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

Sometimes you can free up some memory by closing explorer (Say you're playing a CPU/GPU intensive game on a low to mid range computer, it'll help)

Then you can start explorer back up by opening task manager, opening run, and typing explorer