Windows 10 equivalent to 'explorer.exe'

I am an early adopter of Windows 10, and I am a .NET / Web developer so I like to push the bounds a bit when testing out a new OS. I also try to work against the latest / freshest builds available.

With prior releases of windows, when the Windows button and taskbar became unresponsive you could kill the explorer.exe process in Task Manager.

With Windows 10 (RC), the game has changed a bit. Anyone know how to reset the explorer.exe process?

How can I recover when the OS is hung up and the start button is unresponsive.

I'd prefer not to (a) log out or (b) restart.

This is more of a curiosity than a REAL problem, but thanks in advance!

UPDATE / CLARIFICATION

The new task manager doesn't show process names, and there is an application called "Windows Explorer" but I think its limited to the actual file browser (Explorer) and restarting it has no effect on the start menu.

Solution 1:

I have this issue a lot. The start and search functions become unresponsive. My workaround is saving this:-

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe   
start explorer.exe   
exit  

As a .bat file and putting it on the desktop. It will restart explorer.exe (which is now hidden away in task manager at the bottom of processes, unless you have File Manager open, in which case it can be found in the apps section of processes.