Killing the explorer process

Question

Maybe a little OT but... I am having some trouble killing the explorer a process from inside a C# application. I am using the line System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName(explorer)[0].Kill(); and it works partially because it kills the process but it restarts immidiately after it died. This is probably not a direct C# issue but what can i do to kill it permanently? If i kill the process using task manager it dies and stays dead until i start it again manually. Can i do this from inside the C# app?

ssswamii · Answer

Oooh interesting project. To make something fullscreen I'm sure you can P/Invoke the Win32 API to hide the taskbar then set the size of your app to be fullscreen. You could also use managed DirectX to launch a fullscreen app (probably the easier option).

manolito · Answer

:) don't worry. I'm building a UI where i want to get rid of the desktop metaphore. My app is the only thing that should run on the computer. An alternative would be a fullscreen application. Like the Internet Explorer in kiosk mode where it covers the taskbar and start button. Anybody knows how to do that?

ssswamii · Answer

Actually I think this is something built into Windows. Sometimes I'll kill explorer from the task manager and it will start up a new instance of explorer automatically. The real question is why would you want to kill explorer? I hope your not writing any malicious code. :)