• Final Remix
      -1•1 month ago

      I haven’t had to restart to install / uninstall anything since WinME.

      • @TheOakTree@lemm.ee
        4•1 month ago

        Only thing I can think of is installations that include drivers. And even then, not all of them.

        • Saik0English
          4•1 month ago

          Anything that hooks into explorer.exe tends to require windows to reboot.

            • Saik0English
              0•1 month ago

              If you kill explorer.exe manually it doesn’t respawn. You have to star the process yourself again.

              Unless something changed in the past year.

                • Saik0English
                  1•1 month ago

                  No. It’s not. I spun up a vm and killed explorer.exe. How long should I be waiting? Cause I"m several minutes in and explorer hasn’t restarted itself yet. Also tested it on my VR computer (only non-linux physical machine in the house).

                  Here I’ll even stream it for you. <removed>. I kill the process at basically 16:00(MST) it’s been 5 minutes now and the stream is going.

                  Edit: Over 19 minutes now… Still waiting for it to restart…

                  Edit2: Over an hour now… Still waiting for it to automatically restart. BTW the machine is windows 11. Latest patch/update.

                  Edit3: pulling the stream. Ran it for over 4 hours. The point is proven. It doesn’t restart itself.

        • Final Remix
          1•1 month ago

          What? An OS install isn’t the same as installing / uninstalling something. Xp, 7, 10… I don’t restart when installing shit.