IE6 causing Explorer update failures

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IE6 has had a very annoying problem since day one in that it breaks Windows
Explorer's ability to refresh its display properly. What i mean is that if
i delete a directory, Explorer will continue to show it. Hitting refresh or
anything else doesn't matter. You have to restart Windows Explorer.

is there ANY fix for this? It's happened on every single machine I've ever
updated to IE6, & that's a lot.

I find this the single most annoying bug in Windows i've ever encountered.
I continue to run IE5.01sp4 (win2k sp4) solely for that reason, but it's
becoming more & more difficult. Too many new programs require IE5.5sp2
(which i believe MS has stopped creating security patches for) or higher.
My bank says that IE5.01 won't be supported in a few months... but it's
really that annoying to me. I'd almost rather give up online banking.
 
adf,

If, as you state, you find this "the single most annoying bug in Windows I've ever encountered....."

you are either the luckiest windows user in history,

or,

you really ought to give some serious thought to rekindling a relationship with your local B&M bank.


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IE6 has had a very annoying problem since day one in that it breaks Windows
Explorer's ability to refresh its display properly. What i mean is that if
i delete a directory, Explorer will continue to show it. Hitting refresh or
anything else doesn't matter. You have to restart Windows Explorer.

is there ANY fix for this? It's happened on every single machine I've ever
updated to IE6, & that's a lot.

I find this the single most annoying bug in Windows i've ever encountered.
I continue to run IE5.01sp4 (win2k sp4) solely for that reason, but it's
becoming more & more difficult. Too many new programs require IE5.5sp2
(which i believe MS has stopped creating security patches for) or higher.
My bank says that IE5.01 won't be supported in a few months... but it's
really that annoying to me. I'd almost rather give up online banking.
 
This is not a problem caused by IE, rather there is a problem with your
system. I would suggest that you post your question to a general discussion
group for your operating system.
 
Maybe it's really not related to IE. But don't you experience this problem,
too? I do, and as far as remember ever since using WinXP (which included IE6
right from the beginning, didn't it?). Annoying, but I get around it
somehow. Restarting the Explorer windows cures it. And in the right
file&folder pane the deleted folder usually doesn't show any more.

Philotech
 
it's definitely caused by IE6. Installing it starts the problem, removing
it fixes the problem.

This happens on newly-built machines with nothing except Win2KSP4 (from
integrated SP4
install CDs) with the latest OEM video drivers & such integrated also. But
using the drivers
included with Windows makes no difference. You take that fresh build & add
IE6sp1 (yes, with
all IE patches) and it starts. I've seen it with Intel video, ATI, etc.

here's some more instances of people having the same problem after
installing IE6. Somebody
named George Hester says it's known & documented by MS, but i can't find
anything about it
on their site. He says it's related to synchronization, which would make
sense. All the machines
I use are on networks & use offline files functionality. I don't believe
the registry key one guy
mentions is related, because it hasn't helped me yet on any machine.


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thanks
 
btw, just wanted to mention that it doesn't matter what OS SP is on the
machine. I've seen it with every SP released as soon as you apply IE6. I
prayed IE6sp1 would fix it, but it did not. Since then, i've prayed every
IE6 hotfix would resolve it, no luck.

We daily have to deal with an app at work that produces ~90,000 files per
day & many associated directories with them. It's a real pain to deal with
with IE6, when you constantly have to restart Explorer. It happens on all
Win2K PCs with IE6, no matter the maker, OS SP level, or video.

a while back, i ran across some guy posting in newsgroups saying it was
related to the way they handle some API in IE6, & he had written an app that
would sit in the system tray & correct the problem as it occurred. But i
can't find that on google.
 
PA said:
IE6, maybe, but how about _IE6-SP1_ with all Cumulative Patches installed,
all done with the anti-virus application and all other running Windows
processes closed at the time?
Click to expand...

That may work, but it's damn impractical.
 
No, I experience the same phenomenon, and I do have IE6SP1 with all the
updates installed, no virus scanner running etc. No avail. About one out of
ten directory creations or deletions don't show up in Explorer. Even the
other 9 creations usually don't show up in tree view in the left pane until
I click it in the right (file) pane.

Philotech
 
Philotech said:
Maybe it's really not related to IE. But don't you experience this
problem, too? I do, and as far as remember ever since using WinXP
(which included IE6 right from the beginning, didn't it?). Annoying,
but I get around it somehow. Restarting the Explorer windows cures
it. And in the right file&folder pane the deleted folder usually
doesn't show any more.

Philotech
Click to expand...

I have WinXP and have never had the problem. F5 always refreshes the
display.
 
Frank Saunders said:
I have WinXP and have never had the problem. F5 always refreshes the
display.
Click to expand...

An easy way to prove that that Folders bar does get dynamically
updated is to expand the directory list for a CD volume, then remove
the volume. I don't even need to Refresh to see a change from that.

It's interesting that the display of the Folders themselves is preserved
somehow even if the Folders bar is closed. That suggests that a parallel
list of folders is being kept somewhere. If that list is not being updated
by periodically referring to the real directories that would account for the
problem symptom.

Hmm... I just demonstrated that by renaming a directory using a command
window. The Folders bar still showed the old directory until I used the
View, Refresh command (F5 is not documented there; so Alt-V,R
may be preferable.) What is really significant here is that I had accidentally
collapsed that branch before renaming the directory but the old name
still showed after re-expanding that branch in the Folders bar.
Re-expanding the branch could have given the Folders bar a golden
opportunity to refresh that portion of the list but evidently that is only done
when a manual refresh (such as F5) is requested.


Robert Aldwinckle
 
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