Win 7 Desktop does not auto-refresh

Anonymous
2009-11-04T03:31:49+00:00

Saw another thread on this, but no solution.  Two different laptops, both clean installs.  Intermittently, when I delete or move files on the desktop, the icon remains.  I have to manually refresh to clear the deleted/moved files.

Any ideas?

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Anonymous
2010-04-07T17:13:28+00:00

Yup, Deckard solved the problem. Here is his post from the other thread for quick reference. His solution worked for me:

"I've read this thread to the end and I've tried all the solutions posted... obviously to no avail.

The bug repeats itself, not randomly but constantly, in any situation, folders, libraries - sorted by name or by whatever.

I then tried something different, which instead WORKED , and here it is.

  1. I backed up the registry.
  2. Searched for occurrences of the word refresh and found this key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID{BDEADE7F-C265-11D0-BCED-00A0C90AB50F}\Instance

which contains three subkeys. One of them, curiously enough, is DontRefresh and it has a value of 1 (turned ON)

  1. I then changed the value to 0 (turned OFF) and hit F5 to refresh and save the now changed registry.

Guess what? Now, everything (moving, deleting, copying) works and even the Trash Bin refreshes immediately.

I will keep you posted in the next few days to tell you whether the fix still works.

Good luck.

PS: I forgot to say that I have 3 machines and they respectively run Win7 Ult, Win7 Pro and Win7 Home Premium. Of course all of them showed this bug.

  8 days and several reboots since the fix and everything is still working fine on all three machines."

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Anonymous
2009-11-04T14:13:31+00:00

Hello tspencer103,

Thank you for posting.

Third party software might be responsible for this behavior. I would suggest you clean boot Windows to find out the culprit. A clean boot helps to eliminate software conflict. Follow the steps in this KB article to perform this task

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135

Please post back your findings.

David O

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-02-17T00:44:04+00:00

    Thanks for posting this.

    Saved a lot of frustration.

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-01-19T08:27:42+00:00

    The problem persists not only in Desktop, but in My Computer too.

    what INI file must delete?

    anybody, help this?

    in Task Manager end process Explorer.exe

    in Task manager type new task - cmd.exe.

    in CMD write this

    CD /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local

    DEL IconCache.db /a

    EXIT

    in Task manager new task - explorer.exe

    This procedure delete only on file, but process explorer must be closed.

    folder %userprofile%\AppData\Local delete file IconCache.db

    The fix for Windows XP was find http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823291/en-us

    For Windows 7 must wait

    And this

    in folder options put "hide system files" to be visible.

    after this, find on your Desktop files "desktop.ini". If it's not one, but two, you must delete these files.

    change again the visibility of system files.

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-12-21T18:17:40+00:00

    Click the Start Orb.

    Type            regedit

    Hit enter

    If you get a UAC prompt, click Yes.

    The Registry Editor should now be open.

    Make sure you have the topmost item select - Computer at the very top of the list.

    If you want to make a backup, right click the Computer item and hit export, and then save the file as backup.reg wherever you want.

    Then find and change the keys.

    Hit CTRL+F to start a search.

    Type            DontRefresh

    Click "Find Next" and wait.

    When you get a hit, the left pane will show a bunch of stuff resembling HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID{BDEADE7F-C265-11D0-BCED-00A0C90AB50F}\Instance and the right side will show some stuff, with one item being "DontRefresh".  Double click it, and if the value is 1, simply type a 0 and hit OK.

    Then hit F3 to search for another instance of the value.  Repeat and change all instances from 1 to 0.

    When there are no more values found, it will say it's finished searching through the registry.

    Close the registry editor and reboot.

    I myself have this problem but did not have any DontRefresh keys.

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