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Can't run explorer.exe properly [closed]

I play some older games that require ending the process explorer.exe. This is fine, except I want a way to start explorer.exe back up when I am done playing. I thought to use this:

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Run, explorer.exe
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The weird thing is that when I run this, it opens one window in the 'Libraries'. However, when I open the task manager and Start new process --> explorer.exe, then everything comes back (desktop, taskbar, all of it).

Why does autohotkey's run, explorer.exe not do the same thing? How can I make it start explorer.exe so I get everything back, like I did with the task manager?

UPDATE: The solution is to put %windir%explorer.exe. This is my final code, and it works properly.

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Run, %windir%explorer.exe
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