Re: Explorer doesn't see new files or folders until F5/refresh

[Sharon F]

Hi, Bazil,
My suggestion may not seem very helpful but try to give this situation a
little bit of time. Windows Explorer has always been a little on the
pokey side but this is a new machine. XP will optimize itself during the
first week/month of use. You should eventually notice some performance
improvements. You could run defrag a few times a week to help things
along.

Other suggestions:
- Try adjusting refresh rate on monitor. Check for issues between XP and
your display driver.

- Disable unnecessary programs and services in MSCONFIG and test.

- Check for other bottlenecks: For example, power settings that allow
hard drives that are slow to spin up to sleep when inactive. A CD left
in a CD drive; zip disk in zip drive, etc.

- Spyware can cause all kinds of odd symptoms. Keep a watchful eye out
for this. Use autoprotect on your antivirus program but limit what it
checks and when. Fill in with regular full system scans for optimal
protection.

- Disk Cleanup only deletes files older than 14 days. May want to
manually go through all temp folders and delete remnants from software
installations.

Sharon F
MS MVP [Shell/User]

Hi Sharon

Thanks for taking time to reply and advise.

The PC is less than a week old and has the latest
drivers. I have used disk cleanup and defrag as suggested
but no luck.

I'm sure the file/folder isn't there. I can drop a file
into an empty folder (no long list) and it just doesn't
show up. Refresh and its there! If I delete the file, it
shows as still being in the folder. When I refresh, it
has gone.

Driving me slowly nuts...

Event viewer has this, but I can't find what to do about
it:

<<The performance counter name string value in the
registry is incorrectly formatted. The bogus string is
2278, the bogus index value is the first DWORD in Data
section while the last valid index values are the second
and third DWORD in Data section.>>

Perhaps I'll have to reinstall XP.

Thanks for your help and advice

B

 

[Kirt Thomas]

Sharon, this is good info, but in my case none of it true. I would
really like to find out why XP is sometimes requiring a manual refresh
of of explorer. I have XP pro on my laptop, and it works fine, I have
XP home on my wifes Dell, and it will not refresh unless you tell it
to. LOL, this is not a pokey explorer issue. This happens on a drag
and drop as well as a cut and paste.

Hi, Bazil,
My suggestion may not seem very helpful but try to give this situation a
little bit of time. Windows Explorer has always been a little on the
pokey side but this is a new machine. XP will optimize itself during the
first week/month of use. You should eventually notice some performance
improvements. You could run defrag a few times a week to help things
along.

Other suggestions:
- Try adjusting refresh rate on monitor. Check for issues between XP and
your display driver.

- Disable unnecessary programs and services in MSCONFIG and test.

- Check for other bottlenecks: For example, power settings that allow
hard drives that are slow to spin up to sleep when inactive. A CD left
in a CD drive; zip disk in zip drive, etc.

- Spyware can cause all kinds of odd symptoms. Keep a watchful eye out
for this. Use autoprotect on your antivirus program but limit what it
checks and when. Fill in with regular full system scans for optimal
protection.

- Disk Cleanup only deletes files older than 14 days. May want to
manually go through all temp folders and delete remnants from software
installations.

Sharon F
MS MVP [Shell/User]

Hi Sharon

Thanks for taking time to reply and advise.

The PC is less than a week old and has the latest
drivers. I have used disk cleanup and defrag as suggested
but no luck.

I'm sure the file/folder isn't there. I can drop a file
into an empty folder (no long list) and it just doesn't
show up. Refresh and its there! If I delete the file, it
shows as still being in the folder. When I refresh, it
has gone.

Driving me slowly nuts...

Event viewer has this, but I can't find what to do about
it:

<<The performance counter name string value in the
registry is incorrectly formatted. The bogus string is
2278, the bogus index value is the first DWORD in Data
section while the last valid index values are the second
and third DWORD in Data section.>>

Perhaps I'll have to reinstall XP.

Thanks for your help and advice

B

 

[pcreview]

cant see new folder

Im having the same problem - when i right click to create new folder it doesnt appear. I then exit the folder that im in, and then reopen it to find "New Folder".

Any ideas?

(e-mail address removed)

help please!

thank

 

[pc tech]

new folder, F5

I haven't checked this off a domain.

We were running into the same problem with the new folder not showing up when created unless we hit F5 and refreshed.
The solution we found was the path with the My Documents folder on the desktop. It was pointing to an invalid or incomplete location. Once we corrected the path or reset it to the default, folders showed up right away when created and the same with deleted folders disappearing.


I hope this helps someone.