Win 8 desktop not refreshing

[sparkeh]

If I rename/move/delete anything on my Win 8 desktop its does not refresh.

 

Eg, If I have a folder called 'Docs' and I delete it, it still remains on the desktop until I manually refresh it.

 

Anyone else had this or got any ideas how to fix it?

[Valyyn]

It's for Windows 7 and I don't know how likely this is, but is this any use?

Open Registry Editor and navigate to the following registry key:

 

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID

Here right-click and search for dontrefresh. If you find it, and if it has a value set to 1, change its value to 0.

 

This is known to have helped fix the problem in most cases.

[sparkeh]

Thanks but I don't have that reg setting

[SYNACK]

Local drive poor redirected?

[Valyyn]

Damn, nor did I, but thought it was worth a try.

How about rebuilding the icon cache? Some people said it worked for them:

Desktop icons never appear after startup until right click................. | Windows Secrets Lounge

Open Notepad and paste the following:

@echo off
cls
echo The Explorer process must be killed to delete the Icon DB. 
echo Please SAVE ALL OPEN WORK before continuing
pause
taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F 
echo Attempting to delete Icon DB...
If exist %userprofile%\AppData\Local\IconCache.db goto delID
echo Previous Icon DB not found...trying to build a new one
goto :main
:delID
cd /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local
del IconCache.db /a
pause
echo Icon DB has been successfully deleted
goto main
:main
echo Windows 7 must be restarted to rebuild the Icon DB. 
echo Restart now? (Y/N):
set /p choice=
If %choice% == y goto end
echo Restart aborted...please close this window 
explorer.exe
:end
shutdown /r /t 0
exit

Save this to your desktop as a rebuildiconcache.bat or some such .bat file.

 

Click on the file to run.

[sparkeh]

Ok fixed it by rebuilding icon cache. Apparently same issue in Windows 7.

Edit: heh thanks @Valyyn - just did that

[Valyyn]

Well you know what they say

Great minds think alike!