[PowerToys Awake] Not restarting after explorer crash

[seanmamasde]

[PowerToys Awake] Not restarting after explorer crash

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We've found some similar issues:

• #21351 , similarity score: 82%
• #34275 , similarity score: 81%

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[seanmamasde]

#21351 is closed, but the problem remains.
#34275 is similar, however I have problems after explorer crashed and restarted, not after waking up from sleep. Also the taskbar icon in my case disappeared.

[dend]

@seanmamasde can you tell me more about how explorer crashed? Was it on boot, during some other app operation, or while you were changing specific PowerToys settings?

[seanmamasde]

No explorer crashing isn't because of PowerToys, it's me doing some other things and find it become unresponsive so I force it to quit using taskmgr and restarted using run explorer.exe. That said the Awake should still re-hook(?) onto the explorer process? I don't know how it worked under the hood, I just observed that it's no longer effective or even turned on after explorer restart. Hope this helps.