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to: Geo.
from: Robert Comer
date: 2003-05-04 17:55:30
subject: Re: Win2k: Large Icons Won`t Refresh

From: "Robert Comer" 

This isn't that problem I don't think, but I'll try it next time it happens.

- Bob Comer


"Geo."  wrote in message
news:3eb56c5c$4{at}w3.nls.net...
> dragging another window over it will force a repaint, if that clears it
then
> it's a video driver issue.
>
> Geo.
>
> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
> news:3eb55783$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > If it were a video driver problem i would expect artifacts if it were
n't
> > refreshing the screen properly.
> >
> > >The symptoms described were that the icon images were visible but
> clicking
> > on them had no effect.
> >
> > That's not what i was describing -- you can move these icons that you
just
> > deleted, you can try to delete them again 9and you get a file not found
> > error)  and as for the network drives that exhibit the same behavior,
they
> > just don't show up, and you know their connected because of a command
line
> > net use shows them.  As for the cdrom's never changing the disk name
when
> > you change the CD, you tell me. (probably something to do with autorun
not
> > turned on, but it should update when accessing the CD.)
> >
> > And also, this beahovior is exactly the same on all my PC's regardless
of
> > video.
> >
> > - Bob Comer
> >
> >
> >
> > "Rich"  wrote in message news:3eb543e6{at}w3.nls.net...
> >    Why should there be artifacts?  The symptoms described were that the
> icon
> > images were visible but clicking on them had no effect.  That is an
> > indication that there is no icon there.  There are ways to distinguish
by
> > opening another window and dragging it across the front of the one with
> > phantom icons or minimizing then maximizing.
> >
> > Rich
> >
> > "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
> > news:3eb4b634$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > It's not a repaint problem as there are no artifacts, it's an update
> problem
> > in explorer.
> >
> > - Bob Comer
> >
> >
> > "Rich"  wrote in message news:3eb4b068$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> >    What people are describing doesn't sound like a caching issue.  It
> sounds
> > like a display driver problem with blts that manifests as repaint
> problems.
> >
> > Rich
> >
> >   "Geo."  wrote in message
news:3eb48e3c{at}w3.nls.net...
> >   "Frank Haber"  wrote in message
> >   news:3eb44dd4$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> >
> >   > or detail and back.  Clearing whatever TWEAKUI clears (is there a
> >   > SHELLICONCACHE in NT?)
> >
> >   yes there is a shelliconcache in NT.
> >
> >   Geo.
> >
> >
>
>

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