Ways to Relaunch Finder

If something happens to our Finder (freeze, perhaps), without the provision of quit option we will be certainly forced to restart our Mac. But that won't be the case if we have the know-how to relaunch Finder.

There are many ways to relaunch Finder, until now I've found 4 ways for relaunching Finder. Let's master all of them.

Relaunching with Dock

This is probably the fastest way to relaunch Finder.

1. Hold down control-option and click on the Finder icon stuck onto Dock
2. Choose Relaunch option from appearing contextual menu
3. Finder should be relaunched by then

Relaunching with Terminal

As usual, Terminal lends us a great help in relaunching Finder.

1. Open Terminal
2. Execute command line
   

   killall Finder
   

3. Finder will be quitted and relaunched after a while

Relaunching with Force Quit Pane

We can use force quit pane to quit any running applications, including relaunching Finder (we can quit Finder).

1. Hit command-option-escape to open Force Quit Pane
2. Select Finder
3. Click on Relaunch button

Relaunching with Quicksilver

Besides using Quicksilver as applications launcher, we can also use it to relaunch applications. This relaunch feature is also applicable to Finder.

1. Download Quicksilver and launch it
2. On the application box type Finder and type Relaunch on action box
3. Hit return key to execute
4. Your Finder should be relaunched by now

Perhaps you've known better way to relaunch Finder, let us know by shouting on provided comment box. Our ears are always wide-open to hear your trick.