Well, with your info, I think I've found the culprit.
It's my mapped network drive to the server.
Now I have to figure out whether to keep it or not, but at least I know what
was causing the constant refresh.
Thanks for your insight.
Andy
"Vanguardx" <see_signature> wrote in message | "Andy D" <
[email protected]>
| wrote in | > I use Outlook Express for email, and I rarely use Word.
| > I'm an Autocad draftman, so I have Autocad open all the time.
| > I don't want to have to shut all my prog down viewing in Windows
| > Explorer.
| > There's got to be a reason for the 5 second refresh.
| > Keep in mind, this is Windows Explorer that I'm talking about, not
| > Internet Explorer.
| > To give you an idea of what I'm talking about, open up Win Explorer
| > and press F5.
| > This refreshes the screen. This is what mine does every 5 seconds. I
| > see the purpose, but
| > it gets annoying when you constantly use Win Explorer. There has to
| > be a setting in the registry
| > somewhere.
| >
| >
| >
| > "Vanguardx" <see_signature> wrote in message
| > | >> "Andy D" <
[email protected]>
| >> wrote in | >>> I have winxp pro, and when I'm in win explorer trying to find job
| >>> files, the screen appears to blink or refresh every 5 sec.
| >>> It's really annoying. Is there a way to control this?
| >>>
| >>> fyi- I'm on a 10-station peer to peer network, and a T1 internet,
| >>>
| >>> Andy
| >>
| >> Did you use Outlook or Word? If so, and if you supposedly have
| >> exited those programs, use Task Manager to see if remnant
| >> outlook.exe or winword.exe processes are still running. Microsoft
| >> has yet to fix the problem of these programs hanging when they try
| >> to shutdown so they end up stuck in memory (and cause several
| >> problems). Also, close Internet Explorer and see if there are still
| >> any instances of iexplore.exe running.
| >>
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| Explorer won't automatically refresh unless a folder has been updated
| (by a change in its files). There is an event when a folder gets
| updated (and how some utilities, like GoBack, detect when a file has
| changed to then make an immediate backup of it). So some folder in the
| list you are displaying in Explorer is getting updated. For example,
| you could have some program doing downloads of binary attachments from
| newsgroup posts and each attachment is a different file saved in a
| folder that is in the tree list you have displayed. Since the contents
| of the folder are getting updated then so, too, does Explorer have to
| get periodically refreshed to [eventually] get in sync. Another example
| is if you have mapped drives showing in Explorer and those networked
| devices are getting constantly updated; see
|
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=816375.
|
| Does this flicker only occur when you have certain programs running? If
| not, and with no applications open (i.e., having windows on the screen),
| see the flicker occurs if you only open Explorer (but collapse all tree
| nodes). If it still flickers then start killing processes in Task
| Manager or stopping services in Services.msc until it stops.
|
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