Windows 7 desktop not automatically refreshing.

[Energize]

As of late I've found that my desktop background icons don't automatically refresh, often I delete or add items to the desktop and I have to press f5 to get them to display.

Any ideas on what might cause this?

 

[linktoinsanity]

Try this:

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)
3) I then changed the value to 0 (turned OFF) and hit F5 to refresh and save the now changed registry.

Source: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...-refresh/249f4794-13c8-4fc5-939c-b3d1fe6433fb

Good luck.

 

[Energize]

Thanks, but it appears that the folder {BDEADE7F-C265-11D0-BCED-00A0C90AB50F} does not exist.