3 ways to fix Explorer Won't Refresh bug
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- If you're having trouble with files/folders not appearing until you refresh the folder view with a tap on F5, then you've been hit by the dreaded Explorer Doesn't Refresh Automatically bug! Fortunately, it's pretty easy to fix.
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It's always been crap, never had problems on the Amiga.
Scotty in the next video can you please tell everybody what is behind the blue cloth behind you?
Just a really, really old red brick wall. You can see it in some of my earlier videos. I put up the blue curtain because in the summer when I'm tanned, I kinda of blended in to the red background...
@@ScottiesTech hey thanks for your reply I love watching your videos, very entertaining and I’ve learnt a few tricks over the years. So thank you.
Wow…. I’ve searched for a solution to this for a very long time. Sure enough I had some shared folders pinned to quick access. Windows 10 is such junk.
Ooh, big performance "no-no" right from the gate:
don't download anything to your desktop.
Keeping anything but folder/program shortcuts on your desktop hinders performance a lot.
That was more true in the olden days. I currently have 3GB of files on my desktop, which is stored on my NVMe SSD. My puter is blazingly fast nonetheless. If those files were stored on a mechanical HDD, then it would be slow - especially when first logging in when Windows loads the desktop. Now, when I find somebody with 200 files on their desktop, they can't even see their wallpaper, and many of those files are 2GB in size, then I scold them. ;)
@@ScottiesTech I guess that this rule also doesn't apply to more modern computers. If you're running a 16 core 64 GB RAM beast then refreshing your desktop files might be a non-issue. I tend to keep things on the safe side by not overcrowding my desktop. I think it was in one of your videos & your tips tend to work very well!
@@Apollo440 Yeah, I only just recently realized how heavy my desktop had become (I had a few folders that were BIG), and I went, "Oh, that's weird..." Then I realized why it was still zippy. But in general, I'm all for having a clean desktop (on my puter and my real-life desk). Messy desks tend to indicate messy brains, which are usually less efficient anyway. Mindset and all, ya know? And my case is pretty tame... Some of my coworkers are like I described above. Then they're like, "Why is my puter so slow?" and it's a variety of things... Cluttered desktop with countless HUGE files, they haven't restarted their web browser in like 3 weeks which means it's using 3.5GB of RAM and is very slow since they also have 100 old tabs open, and so on. So, when I download to my Desktop, I tend to clean up after myself. But when most other people do it, then tend to be messy. So, yeah, I guess I better be more careful about mentioning things like that in my vids!! :P
@@ScottiesTech Haha, yeah, you have to weight every word and casual phrase because of how many people watch your videos.
The messy desktop - messy brain connection is real, for sure!
And keeping track of the browser tab count - must be the golden rule of performance troubleshooting these days! I got a tab suspender for each browser.
But at the end of the day you got to make it a habit to close down tabs you're not using, which leads us back to that desktop and brain interconnection.
So, with all things considered - good performance comes from good habits! One may cal it - computer hygiene 101. :)
How’s married life going?
Awesome!!! I honestly never thought I'd marry - at the age of 45... But here I am. Just had to wait for the right person, I guess.
@@ScottiesTech i’m 45 now maybe I’ll get lucky one day
Now that you mention it, it started happening to me about a week ago, right after I shut down my NAS (since i rarely need it i keep it shut down most of the time to save energy).
I wonder if windows just gets stuck on some sort of verification when trying to connect to the truenas link on my quick access when doing completely unrelated tasks. I know Windows does that sort of thing, like i remember copy/pasting a file between my 2 internal SSDs and windows just randomly spins up my external hdd for absolutely no reason, So i Believe every time you perform some operation on explorer it probably goes through every pinned destination and if one of them returns null or whatever it just halts there and doesn't auto-refresh.
LINUX OPENSUSE
sure thats also solution - switch one set of bugs to another even worse
@@sveu3pm it is FREE bugs.
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Thanks Scottie.!!! Finally found a solution. Great video. Love the Palm shirt.
I was truely hoping this was it. But unforunately not so. I have tried DISM,SFC scannow. reset Folders to default. restart Windows Explorer even re-installed Windows and the tips you just presented and yet it persists. But I will continue to search until I find a solution. Maybe there is something I haven't tried yet. If you have any other ideas I am all ears......
Great! it works for me. After a lot of time researching this problem, you give me the solution. Thank you so much.
THANK YOU! the first thing fixed it. I really didn't want to try messing around with boot commands I found online and things way over my head.
unzip file by winrar 7.0 still need press refresh button by myself else can't see the folder
seems win11 don't know u have unzipped file
Thank you! This has been driving me nuts. Saving your video for future reference!
Wow I've never experienced this one! I don't think Win10 and older has the restart option in task manager, so what I do there kill explorer, then hit WIN+R to bring up Run Task (can also be found in the task manager menu), and just type "explorer" and hit enter. This is also useful when explorer just completely borks itself, and has worked since win 98 at least.
Thanks!!! for me it was dropbox causing the problem
👍👍👍..Thank you
Scottie, what do you think about Explorer alternatives? I've used Cairo, but wanted to check out something else. Any ideas (maybe videos planned)?
I hesitate to even try any of them. I used some many years ago, and I had so many problems that I gave up. Besides, this way I get to complain about Explorer. LOL
What has introduced that bug cause before I had never faced this issue ?
ah, explained in 4:00 - thanks
No idea... Probably some combination of hardware/software/updates, as usual.
Thanks! That was driving me crazy!
It's absurd that this defect is still around, even in Windows 11. How could MS be that incompetent? Unfortunately, none of those solutions fixed my issue
It started happening to me AGAIN... This time, I just go into Task Manager, click Explorer, and then click the Restart Task button (this on Win11). That seems to fix it for a good several days.
Thank You . . .
Fixed on Win10 thx Scottie :)
so "do not use network"? wtf! 😂
Thanks a lot for this tip that was annoying me for sooo long! I just had the idea of searching for something and loved finding your video. Worked like a charm!
Wow! I member this bug in Win 7 and installing every update (and all the optional ones) for months and months hoping it would get fixed...
Then, when it migrated to Win 10, I just lost it.
So, thanks Scotty for the video! My Mac friends never believed me.
THANK YOU!! I have been searching on and off for the past week to fix this problem. I took of a cloud service I was using and cleaned up some other apps I never use or wanted and it all works again!!! WOOHOO!!!
Scottie , thanks for helping us , good to see you :)