How does one manually restart graphics drivers?
I'm suffering from the dreaded Radeon mouse cursor corruption. The problem is intermittent and can be "solved" by putting the computer to sleep or restarting it. I hope simply restarting the graphics drivers will remove the symptoms of the problem. This question would seem to indicate that restarting the graphics drivers is possible in Windows 7. My question is: how?
You could also use ToastyX's awesome restart utilty.
Inside the CRU zip file downloaded from the link above, you'll find two utilities named restart.exe and restart64.exe that can be used to restart the graphics drivers. Use restart64.exe if you're on a 64-bit version of Windows and the regular restart.exe otherwise.
To reset the graphics stack in Windows, press Win+Ctrl+Shift+B.
If anybody is still searching for simple answer, then in Windows 7 it's as follows:
- Open Device Manager
- Expand Display adapters
- Right click on a graphic card and choose Disable
- Wait till the screen goes back and repeat step 3 with Enable.
That's it.