This bug is really annoying. If you see it, you’ll agree with me.
Just put the following code into notepad, save it, as “start.bat”, place it next to the .EXE file. Just start our new .bat file.
For Aoe II
@echo off taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe empires2.exe start explorer.exe
For Aoe II the conquerors
@echo off taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe age2_x1.exe start explorer.exe
You can find everywhere this solution on the internet, don’t know why aoe has problems with the Windows 7 explorer.exe.