From: "Robert Comer" 

>Frequent problem for others?

VERY frequent problem in Windows XP. (as in every day since I first tried
XP when it was a beta.

And VERY annoying.

Also Network drives don't always get displayed in explorer and if they do,
with no name for awhile, and the CD icons in explorer never get updated
when you put in a new CD.

- Bob Comer


"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:3eb44dd4$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> I didn't believe this until I saw it.  Now it's affecting my own system,
but
> only intermittently.  Even if I can't fix it, I may learn something about
> how GUIs work.  Here's the behavior.
>
> A folder on the desktop contains 90% shortcuts to utils, and two real
(tiny)
> EXEs.  There are a couple of folders within it.
>
> This happens only in large-icon view, I think.
>
> 1. The folder seems to arrange normally when you grab the handle at the
> lower right and scrunch the width.  It pops to three and five columns just
> fine from its normal four.  Autoarrange is off, BTW.
>
> 2. BUT, intermittenly, it doesn't register changes.  You can delete a
folder
> and the icon's still there until you F5.  Ditto with rename.  You can
> dragondrop an icon into a subfolder and ditto.  This seems to happen more
> often when you dragondrop to a place outside this window.  F5 always
reveals
> the true view.
>
> 3. There's never display corruption - no black icons, etc. There are
phantom
> icons - unclickable and unmovable.  The system always knows what's really
in
> the folder.  When you're bollixed, an attempt to rename an icon to be the
> same as something invisible gives the normal errormsg.
>
> 4. Closing and reopening the folder fixes things, as does switching to
list
> or detail and back.  Clearing whatever TWEAKUI clears (is there a
> SHELLICONCACHE in NT?) in folder repair clears it for longer, but it's
> always back in a couple of days.
>
> Frequent problem for others?
>
> --
>
> -frh
>
>

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