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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Microsoft Answers Support Engineer

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Anonymous

2010-01-17T19:02:20+00:00

I followed this advice, but same result: works until you reboot.
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Anonymous

2009-12-31T22:20:45+00:00

Win 7 64 Bit and have the same issue, have tried all the suggestions but it still persists. Microsoft needs to address the issue, admit it is a OPERATING SYSTEM issue and tell us when it will be resolved or they are at least looking for a solution.
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Anonymous

2009-12-23T04:24:53+00:00

Thank God some other people are having these issues. I've googled this problem a thousand times and all I come up with is people who are having their icons move around.

I have win 7 pro installed on a nicely built new computer (2 months old install). From day 1 when I move (off the desktop), delete, create, save etc., any files I have to manually refresh the screen. Most of the time when I save I see an error telling me the file already exists, this is especially annoying when I'm saving a file from an email in an older version of a microsoft excel or word file.

There has got to be some sort of solution to this. I have intermittent moments when a file WILL appear after I've moved, saved, created etc., but the fact that it's intermittent actually makes it more annoying than a constant failure.

I've created new user accounts and the problem persists. I keep seeing microsoft say try a clean boot, and I keep seeing users saying it's not helping. Has anyone found a solution to this yet?
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