If I kill explorer.exe like this:

private static void KillExplorer()
{
    var processes = Process.GetProcessesByName("explorer");
    Console.Write("Killing Explorer... ");
    foreach (var process in processes)
    {
        process.Kill();
        process.WaitForExit();
    }
    Console.WriteLine("Done");
}

It restarts immediately.

But if I use taskkill /F /IM explorer.exe, or kill it from the task manager, it doesn't restart.

Why is that? What's the difference? How can I close explorer.exe from code without restarting it? Sure, I could call taskkill from my code, but I was hoping for a cleaner solution...