> > Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:24:34 +0100 (BST)
> > From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
> > cc:
barkalow@iabervon.org,
raa.lkml@gmail.com,
ae@op5.se,
tsuna@lrde.epita.fr,
> >
git@vger.kernel.org
> >
> > Funny. Last time I checked the toolbar went away, as well as the desktop,
> > when I killed explorer.exe.
>
> That's a ``feature'': Explorer is the parent of all the desktop
> display. Kinda like the login shell on Unix: if you kill it, there
> goes your whole session. Except that on Windows, the OS pays
> attention and restarts Explorer right away to get you back in
> business. (In first versions of Windows, there was no restarting of
> Explorer, so if you killed it, you needed to reboot :-()