diff --git a/SystemInformer/actions.c b/SystemInformer/actions.c
index f9f81c8043b8..153566f900c3 100644
--- a/SystemInformer/actions.c
+++ b/SystemInformer/actions.c
@@ -2281,6 +2281,7 @@ BOOLEAN PhUiRestartProcess(
     BOOLEAN environmentAllocated = FALSE;
     PVOID environmentBuffer = NULL;
     ULONG environmentLength;
+    BOOLEAN processTerminated = FALSE;
 
     if (PhGetIntegerSetting(L"EnableWarnings"))
     {
@@ -2306,29 +2307,6 @@ BOOLEAN PhUiRestartProcess(
     if (Process->ProcessId == NtCurrentProcessId())
         return FALSE;
 
-    // Special handling for the current shell process. (dmex)
-    {
-        CLIENT_ID shellClientId;
-
-        if (NT_SUCCESS(PhGetWindowClientId(PhGetShellWindow(), &shellClientId)))
-        {
-            if (Process->ProcessId == shellClientId.UniqueProcess)
-            {
-                status = PhOpenProcess(
-                    &processHandle,
-                    PROCESS_TERMINATE,
-                    Process->ProcessId
-                    );
-
-                if (NT_SUCCESS(status))
-                {
-                    PhTerminateProcess(processHandle, STATUS_SUCCESS);
-                    NtClose(processHandle);
-                }
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
     fileNameWin32 = Process->FileName ? PhGetFileName(Process->FileName) : NULL;
 
     if (PhIsNullOrEmptyString(fileNameWin32) || !PhDoesFileExistWin32(PhGetString(fileNameWin32)))
@@ -2370,6 +2348,73 @@ BOOLEAN PhUiRestartProcess(
     NtClose(processHandle);
     processHandle = NULL;
 
+    // Special handling for the current shell process. (dmex)
+    // Handling shell process only after VM_READ routines above have completed, because we cannot properly read memory of exited process (Dart Vanya)
+    {
+        CLIENT_ID shellClientId;
+        HWND shellWindow = NULL;
+
+        if (NT_SUCCESS(PhGetWindowClientId(shellWindow = PhGetShellWindow(), &shellClientId)) &&
+            Process->ProcessId == shellClientId.UniqueProcess)
+        {
+            if (NT_SUCCESS(PhOpenProcess(
+                &processHandle,
+                SYNCHRONIZE,
+                Process->ProcessId
+                )))
+            {
+                if (WindowsVersion >= WINDOWS_VISTA)
+                {
+                    CLIENT_ID taskbarClientId;
+                    WCHAR windowClassName[MAX_PATH] = L"";
+                    shellWindow = NULL;
+
+                    while (shellWindow = FindWindowEx(NULL, shellWindow, NULL, NULL))
+                    {
+                        if (NT_SUCCESS(PhGetWindowClientId(shellWindow, &taskbarClientId)) &&
+                            taskbarClientId.UniqueProcess == shellClientId.UniqueProcess)
+                        {
+                            GetClassName(WindowHandle, windowClassName, RTL_NUMBER_OF(windowClassName));
+
+                            if (PhEqualStringZ(windowClassName, L"Shell_TrayWnd", FALSE))
+                            {
+                                PostMessage(shellWindow, WM_USER + 0x1B4, 0, 0);  // exit Explorer official way (Dart Vanya)
+                                break;
+                            }
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+                else
+                {
+                    PostMessage(shellWindow, WM_QUIT, 0, 0);
+                }
+
+                // Wait for a reasonably timeout (maybe a setting like ExplorerShellRestartTimeout?)
+                status = PhWaitForMultipleObjectsAndPump(NULL, 1, &processHandle, 2500, QS_ALLINPUT);
+                processTerminated = status == STATUS_WAIT_0;
+
+                NtClose(processHandle);
+                processHandle = NULL;
+            }
+
+            if (!processTerminated)
+            {
+                status = PhOpenProcess(
+                    &processHandle,
+                    PROCESS_TERMINATE,
+                    Process->ProcessId
+                    );
+
+                if (NT_SUCCESS(status))
+                {
+                    processTerminated = NT_SUCCESS(PhTerminateProcess(processHandle, STATUS_SUCCESS));
+                    NtClose(processHandle);
+                    processHandle = NULL;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
     // Start the process.
     // 
     // Use the existing process as the parent, and restarting the process will inherit most of the process configuration from itself (dmex)
@@ -2541,7 +2586,10 @@ BOOLEAN PhUiRestartProcess(
 
         // Terminate the existing process.
 
-        PhTerminateProcess(processHandle, STATUS_SUCCESS);
+        if (!processTerminated)
+        {
+            status = PhTerminateProcess(processHandle, STATUS_SUCCESS);
+        }
 
         // Update the console foreground.