How to Restart Riot Client?

Riot Client users want to restart the Riot Client application after encountering various problems within the application. If you want to restart the Riot Client application, this article will be a guide for you.

How to Restart Riot Client?
How to Restart Riot Client?

Riot Client users want to fix the problem by restarting the Riot Client application when the application crashes for any reason. But unfortunately the crash may not allow us to reboot. If you are facing this problem, you can find the solution by following the suggestions below.

Why Doesn't Riot Client Restart?

Riot Client Not Restarting

If you cannot restart the Riot Client application for any reason, your access may be restricted by crashing or forcing the applications running in the background. Of course, it may be due to many reasons, not just this problem. The reasons for encountering the Riot Client not restarting problem can belisted as follows:

  • The application running in the background may be blocking it.
  • The Riot Client application may be writing an error report.
  • Your computer processor may be struggling.

The above possibilities may prevent the application from restarting. For this, we will give you information on how to restart the Riot Client application by mentioningafew suggestions.

How to Restart Riot Client?

Riot Client is an application that will allow you to download and provide quick access by hosting all the games developed by Riot Games under one roof. We have observed that users who want to provide quick access want to restart the Riot Client application for some reason after it crashes, and we have provided information on how to restart the application in suchacase.

How to Restart Riot Client?

Usually, the main topic of this problem is Valorant, which restricts our access to the game by encountering the error "Restart Riot Client." in other games such as League of Legends. This can occur due to many issues, causing the client to not work. For this, we will try to guide you by mentioningafew suggestions.

1-) Close with the Help of Task Manager

If it is desired to restart the Riot Client application, you can end the task of the Riot Client application with the help ofatask manager. This will force the application to be closed completely.

  • First of all, open the task manager by pressing the "CTRL+ALT+DELETE" key combinations.
  • Let's expand the applications by clicking "More details" in the drop-down menu.

Expanding Task Manager

  • Right-click on the "Riot Client" application in thelist of applications and click "End Process".

Close Riot Client with Task Manager

After performing this operation, right-click on the Riot Client application and run it as an administrator.

2-) Force Riot Client Application to Close

To force the application to close, we can force the application to be closed completely by using the "ALT+F4" key combination.

  • First, open the Riot Client.
  • Make sure the Riot Client application is selected and force the application to close by pressing the "ALT+F4" key combination.

After this process, right-click on the Riot Client application and run it as an administrator.

3-) Restart Computer

Restarting the computer allows all services in the Windows operating system to be restarted and helps applications to run cleanly. We can help restart the Riot Client and other service frameworks by doing this. For this, all we need to do is restart the computer and right-click on the Riot Client application and run it as an administrator.

4-) Check Vgc Service

You may be encountering such errors due to the vgc service. For this, we can reach the solution of the problem by checking the Vgc service.

  • If you have performed the above operation but still get the same error, let's access the "C:\Program Files\Riot Vanguard" file. (The file access of your Fix game must also be in the C:\ folder.)
  • Let's open the
  • installer.exe program and perform the deletion.(Let's say yes to the warning that appears.)
  • Let's run our VALORANT game on our desktop.
  • Launcher will scan for missing files and reinstall and reinstall vgc in services state.
  • After the scan process is ready, we type Services in the start search bar and open it.

VGC service

  • In the Services window that opens, we find the vgc service and double-click it
  • We will need to start the service state by changing the startup type to Automatic.

Running VGC service

  • After performing this operation, the service status will appear as Running

Running VGC service

After this process, you can restart your computer and log in to the game.

Yes, friends, we have solved our problem under this title. If your problem persists, you can ask about the errors you encounter by entering our FORUM platform.