re: comment about 'Refresh the Desktop without Restarting Windows' Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 4:56 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Jas Shephard (1 messages posted) I found the refresh would not work. By using ctrl-alt-del to bring up the task manager, select 'Processes' tab. Right click explorer.exe and End Process. Say Yes to warning box. This clears the desktop. In Windows Task Manager which should still be open select file, New Task. Type explorer in text box and click OK. Desktop should now be restored. On Friday, February 29, 2008 at 10:24 am, john milner wrote: >also, to refresh the icons on the desktop. I find just right-click on the desktop >and a small window comes up and there is a "refresh" there, click that, and icons >should be refreshed. Written in response to: comment about 'Refresh the Desktop without Restarting Windows' (john milner: Friday, February 29, 2008 at 10:24 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] comment about 'Refresh the Desktop without Restarting Windows' (john milner: Fri, Feb 29, 2008, 10:24 am) re: comment about 'Refresh the Desktop without Restarting Windows' (Jas Shephard: Thu, Jul 17, 2008, 4:56 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum