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
    2010-09-06T02:13:56+00:00

    Thank you very much David for your post. If I were as prolific a writer as you the note could have easily been posted by me. I started noticing this strange behavior when attempting to create a sub-folder (usual manor, right click chose new than folder). The new sub-folder would not show up. After a couple attempts a finally ended up with about 4 new folders. Than I figured out that if I used the usual manor (as descibed in above paranth) than hit F5 the new sub folder would immediately show up. I later saw similar problems where the F5 was needed to execute a normally simple task. Thanks for attemtping so many solutions David. You'll keep the pressure on.

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-07-05T20:31:40+00:00

    I had the same problem, and it seems to have gone for good (touch wood). It stopped after I did two things:

    (1) I updated the video driver (Nvidia in my case)

    (2) I updated the Windows Experience Index.

    The problem might have more than a single cause, so perhaps this approach doesn't work for you. But it did work for me, so you might want to give it a try.

    Michael

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-06-28T14:54:53+00:00

    I'm having this issue as well, and none of these work.

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