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Win7 Win64. I configured Windows Explorer in Tools > Folder Options > View > Launch folder windows in a separate process. It is checked, to make sure I rebooted Windows and it was still checked.

Still, if I open a lot of Windows Explorer windows, there are still only 2 explorer.exe running. I even tried to directly execute explorer.exe and it didn't work. I believe that option makes WinExplorer and Desktop run each on its own process.

But I want each window to have its own process, so that if needed I can kill a process without losing other ones. It doesn't need to be everytime, it would be perfect if explorer.exe had a parameter to make it open new process instead of opening a window inside the existing one.

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You could use the explorer.exe /seperate switch, although it would always default to your My Documents.

As you can see below, I have run the explorer.exe /seperate command twice, and thus have three explorer.exe process.

Seperate Explorer Windows

Michael Frank
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