Closing All Explorer Windows in PowerShell

Question

I am writing the following code to close all explorer windows with PowerShell:

(New-Object -comObject Shell.Application).Windows() |
 ? { $_.FullName -ne $nu         


        

Answer 1

As per @ste's comment, the accepted answer may have stopped working after windows updates.

I've solved it with something similar in Powershell.

Watchout though as I've assumed any explorer processes with a window title are folders. This might not always be the case (eg maybe if copying files)

get-process | ?{ $_.ProcessName -eq 'Explorer' } | ?{ "" -ne $_.MainWindowTitle } | Stop-Process