Problem with Killing windows explorer?

Question

I need to kill windows explorer\'s process (explorer.exe), for that

lets say i use a native NT method TerminateProcess

It works but the problem is that the

Answer 1

I have some researches and these are reslts:

Windows will restart explorer after it closed -except by Task Manager-.

So you should change the related RegistryKey:

RegistryKey regKey = RegistryKey.OpenBaseKey(RegistryHive.LocalMachine, RegistryView.Default).OpenSubKey(@"Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon", RegistryKeyPermissionCheck.ReadWriteSubTree);
if (regKey.GetValue("AutoRestartShell").ToString() == "1")
    regKey.SetValue("AutoRestartShell", 0, RegistryValueKind.DWord);

For changing a registry key the program should run as administrator:

• You can show UAC prompt to user to run application as administrator as explaining in this Answer. And if UAC is turned off I direct you to this Answer.
• You can embed a manifest file in the exe, which will cause Windows Seven to always run the program as an administrator, As explaining in this Answer.
• You should know you can't force your process starts as administrator; so you can run your process inside your process as another process! You can use this blog post or this answer.
• You can also use reg command with this [Microsoft Windows Documentation].6.

After setting that -restarting explorer- off: This code can close explorer :

Process[] ps = Process.GetProcessesByName("explorer");
foreach (Process p in ps)
    p.Kill();