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
    2011-09-12T07:45:28+00:00

    The problem seems to have disappeared on my PC. The "solution" suggested is ok provided that feature is not required. I believe it was a bug that has been fixed with an update.

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-09-11T17:36:40+00:00

    I've narrowed down more the possible causes of the issue:

    If You disable the Client for Microsoft Networks in properties of Local Area Connection - the issue disappear (maybe only in my case).

    I tried this and it worked.

    Start --> Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections

    Local Area Connection should appear among your other connections.  Right-click it and go to Properties.  At the top of the list should be "Client for Microsoft Networks".  Click the box beside it so that there is no check mark in the box.  Click "Ok".

    A quick way to see if it works is to make a new file on your desktop.  If after naming the file, it says the file cannot be found, you might be off to a bad start lol.  If not, proceed to delete the file.  If it disappears, the problem may be solved!

    Thanks again to Nucleo for finding this!

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-08-19T20:10:39+00:00

    It worked perfect for me (W7 64 bits)!!!

    Thank you Megatrol!!

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