Building a flow that starts by opening a Command Prompt

I'm one of the many who encounter the problem where my taskbar stops auto-hiding. The only way to restore it to normal function is to go into Task Manager (or open a DOS command screen), kill explorer.exe, and then run explorer.exe. It comes back like normal and stays like that until ... the next time it feels like not auto-hiding. 😐

I'm trying to use Power Automate for a solution to expedite the fix: create a flow consisting of initiating Command Prompt, entering the kill explorer.exe text line, entering explorer.exe, and exiting. Being able to run this flow would be a god-send.

Trouble is: I can't make it work. I can't get it to start by initiating the Command Prompt, which means the flow fails right at the beginning because it doesn't have a place to enter the text lines in the subsequent steps of the flow. Can someone out there offer a little guidance on how to set up a Power Automate flow that starts by opening the Command prompt (so that the subsequent text entry commands go into the Command prompt window? Thanks much!

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