{"id":518,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=518"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"restart-the-desktop-tracker-and-deskbar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=518","title":{"rendered":"Restart the Desktop (Tracker and Deskbar)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the Tracker or Deskbar should ever crash on you, or if your icons suddenly all turn into plain blue squares (a rare, random, and mysterious occurence), you can &#8222;restart the desktop&#8220; easily, without needing a Terminal window open.<br \/>\nHit Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring up the Team Monitor. If you see a &#8222;Restart the Desktop&#8220; button, click it. If you don&#8217;t, select either the Tracker or the Deskbar in the threads list and kill it off. When you bring up the Team Monitor again, the &#8222;Restart Desktop&#8220; button should be there.<br \/>\nAn easier way to kill off the Tracker manually might be to use the <a href=\"\/chunga.php?ID=022\">Vulcan Death Grip<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the Tracker or Deskbar should ever crash on you, or if your icons suddenly all turn into plain blue squares (a rare, random, and mysterious occurence), you can &#8222;restart the desktop&#8220; easily, without needing a Terminal window open. Hit Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring up the Team Monitor. If you see a &#8222;Restart the Desktop&#8220; button, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-tracker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}