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I was managing my background processes in task manager trying to lower my CPU. I was ending some unneeded tasks when I think I ended some kind of windows 10 32 bit or 64 bit process. Now my screen is black with no desktop icons, taskbar, cortona, wallpaper or the start screen on the side. It's just black. I need help figuring out what process to start again in task manager to get windows 10 back. All my files are the same but I don't know which one to open or run.
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Ciao,
I'm Ugo, a Microsoft Independent Advisor willing to help other Microsoft customers.
Regarding your question, as a first troubleshooting option, can you please try restarting explorer.exe?
CTRL-ALT-DEL > Task Manager > File > New Task (Run...) > Type explorer.exe + ENTER
Please let me know if this helped somehow.
Ciao
Ugo
