Stale data in Windows Explorer?

[Bill Cohagan]

Lately I've been experiencing a problem with stale data in Windows Explorer.
I'm browing a folder across a LAN and change its contents (by renaming a
file or deleting a file, or pasting a file...), but the display doesn't
reflect the change. So, if I want to add a new folder I right click in the
WE window and select new folder. This creates a new folder named [New
Folder], but no such folder appears in the window, even if I scroll down to
the bottom of the listed files.

Now in all cases I can hit f5 to refresh the window and everything is then
OK. Absent that however it's just an out of date view of the folder in
question. This appears to be a recent problem; i.e., I've been using this
system for a long time without seeing such a problem.

So, how can I fix this? It's causing me major headaches.

Regards,
Bill

 

[Bill Cohagan]

I'm still experiencing this problem, but thus far no help from the newsgroup
here -- so I thought I'd try again.

Bill

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

If this is a recent problem then you should try System Restore
to return Windows to a point well before the problem became
apparent.

I believe the refresh rate is controlled here:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Update

On my machine I have there the value UpdateMode (Reg_DWORD)
whose data is 1. I would check this out and maybe try different numbers.

I'm still experiencing this problem, but thus far no help from the newsgroup
here -- so I thought I'd try again.

Bill

Lately I've been experiencing a problem with stale data in Windows
Explorer. I'm browing a folder across a LAN and change its contents (by
renaming a file or deleting a file, or pasting a file...), but the display
doesn't reflect the change. So, if I want to add a new folder I right
click in the WE window and select new folder. This creates a new folder
named [New Folder], but no such folder appears in the window, even if I
scroll down to the bottom of the listed files.

Now in all cases I can hit f5 to refresh the window and everything is then
OK. Absent that however it's just an out of date view of the folder in
question. This appears to be a recent problem; i.e., I've been using this
system for a long time without seeing such a problem.

So, how can I fix this? It's causing me major headaches.

Regards,
Bill