[RESOLVED] is there such a thing as "auto refresh"?

[terryZ]

problem:

i open "my documents" folder. i delete a file or folder within it. the file or folder deletes but the icon for the file or folder remains. if i press f5 to refresh my screen, the icon disappears.

the opposite happens also. if i rip a cd to a folder and have that folder open, the icons do not appear while the cd is being ripped. if i press f5 later, the icons appear.

this has been going on for just this past week. no installations have been done in quite a while.

any ideas what's going on?

thanks in advance.

[XOR]

For instant refresh you have to change following settings in the registry
Open regedit (start>run>regedit)
Find following key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Update
On the left pane doubleclick UpdateMode and change the value to 0 (zero)

[liam858]

Just to add, please make sure you backup the registry before tinkering. (File|Export)


Liam

[XOR]

Just to add, please make sure you backup the registry before tinkering. (File|Export)
Liam

Yes, forgot to mention.
And another thing to add this could also be due to system resources

[terryZ]

thanks, all.

seems to be working. we'll see.

yeah, i always back up the registry before doing anything like this.

however ...

if i SHOULD screw up the registry, how can it be restored? especially if it screws up windows start up?

[liam858]

Bootdisk + Recovery Console....if you couldn't boot into Windows it would be worse case scenario, you should at least get Safe Mode options in most cases and apply the backed up reg settings.


Liam

[terryZ]

thanks liam. good to know.

luckily, none of my past (and present) registry changes have resulted in THAT scenario.

[Steve R Jones]

The reg tweak that XOR posted is something I do to all pc's.