aurora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have previously asked about how to reload a ShellExtension during > development. There a a few good suggestions like killnig the explorer > process.
AFAIK, the official way to kill explorer (useful during development) on XP is to press Start->Shutdown. In the dialog box that now appears, while holding down ALT-CTRL-SHIFT click the cancel button. This will end explorer. Then use CTRL-SHIFT-ESCAPE to open task manager and start a new explorer instance (via New Task). > Now I run into a bigger issue. When I uninstall (using innosetup), the > process is still loaded and it lock up scores of DLLs. Killing > explorer is probably too heavy handed for end users. So let me try one > more time, is there anyway to positively tell explorer to unload a COM > server? For the end user there's no other way than to reboot. Isn't this what innosetup suggests anyway? I cannot understand why MS didn't provide a way to programmatically restart explorer. And, BTW, the problem isn't python specific. Thomas _______________________________________________ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
