Setup: Reverted the method for ending explorer.exe and its subprocesses

ExplorerPatcher/utility.c

@@ -1536,42 +1536,6 @@ BOOL ExtractMonitorByIndex(HMONITOR hMonitor, HDC hDC, LPRECT lpRect, MonitorOve
     return TRUE;
 }
 
-DWORD GetProcessIdByExeName(LPCWSTR wszProcessName)
-{
-    HANDLE hSnap = CreateToolhelp32Snapshot(TH32CS_SNAPPROCESS, 0);
-    if (hSnap != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
-    {
-        PROCESSENTRY32W pe;
-        pe.dwSize = sizeof(pe);
-        BOOL bRet = Process32FirstW(hSnap, &pe);
-        while (bRet)
-        {
-            if (!_wcsicmp(pe.szExeFile, wszProcessName))
-            {
-                CloseHandle(hSnap);
-                return pe.th32ProcessID;
-            }
-            bRet = Process32NextW(hSnap, &pe);
-        }
-        CloseHandle(hSnap);
-    }
-    return 0;
-}
-
-void KillProcess(LPCWSTR wszProcessName)
-{
-    DWORD dwProcessId = GetProcessIdByExeName(wszProcessName);
-    if (!dwProcessId)
-        return;
-
-    HANDLE hProcess = OpenProcess(PROCESS_TERMINATE, FALSE, dwProcessId);
-    if (hProcess)
-    {
-        TerminateProcess(hProcess, 1);
-        CloseHandle(hProcess);
-    }
-}
-
 #ifdef _WIN64
 inline BOOL MaskCompare(PVOID pBuffer, LPCSTR lpPattern, LPCSTR lpMask)
 {

ExplorerPatcher/utility.h

@@ -670,8 +670,6 @@ typedef struct _MonitorOverrideData
 } MonitorOverrideData;
 
 BOOL ExtractMonitorByIndex(HMONITOR hMonitor, HDC hDC, LPRECT lpRect, MonitorOverrideData* mod);
-DWORD GetProcessIdByExeName(LPCWSTR wszProcessName);
-void KillProcess(LPCWSTR wszProcessName);
 
 #ifdef _WIN64
 PVOID FindPattern(PVOID pBase, SIZE_T dwSize, LPCSTR lpPattern, LPCSTR lpMask);

ep_setup/ep_setup.c

@@ -651,11 +651,24 @@ int WINAPI wWinMain(
             }
         }
         Sleep(100);
-        KillProcess(L"explorer.exe");
+        GetSystemDirectoryW(wszPath, MAX_PATH);
-        KillProcess(L"StartMenuExperienceHost.exe");
+        wcscat_s(wszPath, MAX_PATH, L"\\taskkill.exe");
-        KillProcess(L"SearchHost.exe");
+        SHELLEXECUTEINFOW sei;
-        KillProcess(L"SearchApp.exe");
+        ZeroMemory(&sei, sizeof(SHELLEXECUTEINFOW));
-        KillProcess(L"ShellExperienceHost.exe");
+        sei.cbSize = sizeof(sei);
+        sei.fMask = SEE_MASK_NOCLOSEPROCESS;
+        sei.hwnd = NULL;
+        sei.hInstApp = NULL;
+        sei.lpVerb = NULL;
+        sei.lpFile = wszPath;
+        sei.lpParameters = L"/f /im explorer.exe";
+        sei.hwnd = NULL;
+        sei.nShow = SW_SHOWMINIMIZED;
+        if (ShellExecuteExW(&sei) && sei.hProcess)
+        {
+            WaitForSingleObject(sei.hProcess, INFINITE);
+            CloseHandle(sei.hProcess);
+        }
 
         Sleep(500);
 
@@ -759,6 +772,8 @@ int WINAPI wWinMain(
             }
         }
 
+        Sleep(1000);
+
         // --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
         // C:\Program Files\ExplorerPatcher