Win 7 Desktop does not auto-refresh

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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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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.

I backed up the registry.
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)

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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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.

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Anonymous

2012-06-08T15:37:17+00:00

hey, that worked for me, many thanks!!!!!

DontRefresh set to 0 and now windows explorer refreshes file name changes, deleted files.. awesome. thanks again
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Anonymous

2012-06-06T17:59:39+00:00

I have the same issue on multiple computers. I checked my registry and did not find the aforementioned key (HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID{BDEADE7F-C265-11D0-BCED-00A0C90AB50F}\Instance) . I have manually created the key in the registry and am testing as we speak. Will let you know how it goes.
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2012-05-19T14:03:05+00:00

oh great. i have no "dontrefresh" in my registy

its not 3rd party as it it worked perfectly fine for several months. then suddenly stopped refreshing.

not even sure when it ocurred as it only ets used as media center and doesnt get altered other than windows updates and ms security center updates.

this is not new ive seen it in vista and xp come on ms its your **** cos no 2 macines here are the same other than ms os. and others running same software as peeps on here dont have the issue.

its a bug.... fix it!!!!
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