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Is there a “Legal” API to exit explorer.exe?

I need to restart Windows Explorer from my custom installer, but the catch is that I can't simply 'kill its process' I need it to close 'gracefully' so that it saves its settings.

While doing a search I found out that Windows has this option covered. If you open up the Start menu, then Ctrl+Shift+Right-click on an empty space of the start menu, you'll see a context menu that gives you the 'Exit Explorer' command that does exactly what I need.

So I was wondering, is there an API to do that from a program?

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