Thursday, February 21, 2008

Running the Explorer in Separate Process (NT/XP Only)

By default, the Windows Desktop, Taskbar, and Explorer run in a single process using multiple threads. You can modify the registry so that the Taskbar and Desktop will run in one process with each instance of Explorer in a separate process.
  1. Start Regedit
  2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer
  3. Create a DWORD value called DesktopProcess
  4. Give it a value of 1
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