Windows 10: File Explorer repeatedly refreshing its display

Why does the File Explorer keep refreshing its list of files in a folder while you are trying to work with entries in the list? It wipes out whatever you are currently doing, and sometimes applies an action to a file at the top of the list which just happened to be in the same position on the screen as the file you were about to rename, copy, delete, or display. How do I report this problem?

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Anyway to REFRESH the Network display in File explorer


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Even if you can right click on the blank area and click on refresh, the list/icon of the removed devices will still be displayed in File Explorer until the Network Cache is refreshed. You can power cycle the router and from your pc, type: ipconfig /flushdns then reboot and eventually will disappear.

 

Anyway to REFRESH the Network display in File explorer


Hi there

The Refresh DOES appear when you right mouse click in the space but the Network mappings aren't refreshed -- the cache still waits several minutes before the display of network computers are updated.

Thanks for all the help -- it seems that Network mapping isn't high on the list of File explorer attributes -- at least the map DOES refresh even though one has to wait a few minutes.

Would be nice though to be able to FORCE a manual refresh though. I suppose a problem could be that the NEW system coming online has to create connections to computers IT finds on the network. I can understand a delay for a system STARTING UP but a system shutting down should disappear instantly from the list !!!

Cheers
jimbo

 

Anyway to REFRESH the Network display in File explorer

Hi there

I've tried all the options --just doesn't seem to appear on my system.

However the Network DOES eventually get refreshed after several minutes - - seems to do this by itself so there must be some Network scanning process taking place. I shouldn't have to re-boot a system just because a machine or a media server goes off line.

The frustrating thing is that SAMBA on Linux refreshes as soon as you browse the network again.

What's worse though is when the server comes back online I have to wait again for a few minutes before it appears in the network list although it will as before appear automatically after several minutes.

Seems I can't as a normal user get access to the cache here to manually force a refresh.

Cheers
jimbo