I was going to try uninstalling the IE hotfix that it suggest as causing problems, but I cannot seem to find that Hotfix listed in Add/Remove. Maybe this can help shed some light on what is happening to me. Then when I got back to the computer later on it had unfixed the problem and Explorer would not refresh again. After hours of Googling for a solution and going down a lot of dead ends, here’s what eventually worked for me to fix this issue in Windows 10 Pro (Version.

Further investigation with Windows Explorer revealed that the computer had 'given'. Apparently this non-refreshing File Explorer issue has existed since Windows 7 but Microsoft won’t even acknowledge it despite thousands of people complaining about it for several years. I wanted to see what it was so I installed it on one of the PCs and somehow it magically fixed the Explorer refresh problem. The system reported that it could not find the program at that location. As I was looking for option I came across Fundelete from Sysinternals (does not do what I was looking for). When I do it this way I do not seem to have any issues, however I am using these computer to teach people Windows XP that have never worked on a computer before, so I need to have this look as 'normal' as possible.Īnother issue that I have been trying to work out is a free solution to haveing a mapped drive recycling bin. Using the UNC method to display the folder does kind of solve the problem. Jason RE: Windows Explorer will not refresh N0ktar (TechnicalUser) 19 Jul 05 17:04 This account set up as a guest account on each PC.Īny help would be appreciated. This problem only occurs with one user account, however the way my computer lab is set up is that all of the computers are automatically logging into the same user account, and this is the account that I am having trouble with. If you use an open/save dialog box from Word it creates a new folder just fine and shows it right away. There is also a few Win 2000 machines that map the folders and both folders work just fine on the Win 2000 machines. There is a second mapped folder that is on the same server and that works just fine.

The folder is a mapped drive from a Windows Server 2003 machine, and I have ensured that the user has Full Control permisions on the folder.

When a new file/folder is created/deleted/renamed it will not show up in Windows Explorer until you press F5 to refresh. I am having a problem with some Windows XP SP2 computers.

Windows explorer does not refresh