What is actually happening when we click "Refresh" in Windows operating system?
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redrawing all the icons you have on the desktop. sometimes it happens, that some of them disappear and you can get them back by refreshing the screen.
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its the central part of your windows that saves all of the configuration of your system (with digits and characters) in it.\nwhen windows is loading ,it uses registry to find out windows and system and user configuration.\nDo not change registry if you are not proffesional in it.because it may cause your windows not work!!
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Thats what it does.  They are the keys used to reboot a pc using Windows.
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There can be various reasons why it won't, it depends on your version of "refresh".\n\nIf you mean "I want the page to periodically reload", then it won't do that unless you tell it to. Most sites won't automatically reload because it is inconvenient - it can cause you to lose your place in what you were reading.\n\nIf you mean "I keep getting old copies of pages", check your cache settings (which will depend on what net access software, and possibly what ISP you are using). If, on reloading a page, you get an old copy, where you KNOW there's a newer one, try holding down Shift when pressing the reload button.
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When you refresh your desktop,your memory a.k.a RAM is paging from the internal buffer..It can be images like this..HARD DISK->BUFFER->RAM..If information in the ram is going to be taken in the hard disk,then the computer speed is going to be slow.Thats why they come up with an alternative..Why not built an internal buffer thet has high speed data transfer.Then if the information is not in the RAM,operating system is going to search in buffer then in hard diak and so on.This is known as paging process.Thats why if you refresh your desktop after playing NEED FOR SPEED MOST WANTED,its going to take a while.
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Right click on the toolbar where the refresh button is and make sure that "address bar" is checked. If not check it. Otherwise move the curser over the edge of the toolbar untill you get a pointer with two arrows. Then Drag the mouse down. Good Luck.
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If a basic refresh doesn't work, try a "hard refresh" by pressing CTRL+R.  This will force your browser to reload the page from the host and not from a saved file on your computer.
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it happened with me also one time dont worry about it\nits software problem\nif it repeat itself all the time then reinstall ur windows
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The message is just a warning that you have made a change to the startup lists.   Windows wants you to know that you are not using everything.  You do have to restart to make your change effective.\n\nBut if you really want to uncheck those items, just restart and ignor the message!
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Great Question and thank you for participating. It's great that we have the ability to enable and disable the system restore as there are many trojans, viruses and other malicious programs that have the ability hide in particular places so that even if you restore your computer back to a certain date when everything was working well or even completely remove your Windows Program so that they can rewrite themselves into the new changes just as soon as you boot up for the first time. By disabling the system restore, those malicious programs cant follow you if you completely format the hard drive and put in a new, fresh copy of Windows XP or whatever Platform you're using. By enabling the system restore, you'll be able to restore the computer back to a date when everything was working fine. This will end any new or arising issues due to conflicts in any hardware or software that you may have added recently and is now causing problems. You will of course lose any and all programs and changes you've made since the date you choose to restore back to so be sure to think it all out before hitting buttons. If I can help further, let me know. Always happy to help. Larry Radio Shack 01-9590
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Its the green button directly to the right of the address bar... The one with the arrow pointing up and down...\n\nIts basically the same as the go button now. Remember how you typed in the address then clicked go... the go button in IE7 is also the refresh button.
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i got a virus that did that. not harmful to the rest of the system but annoying. update your anti-virus and run a scan.
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the only reason why you would keep refreshing an internet page is if the page was in HTML and it kept updating hence you would have to refresh the page to see updated stats (eg. for a football match)\n\nother than that no internet refreshing is not important, the only thing that refreshes is the whole screen but you dont notice it because it does it at like 60 times a second automatically depending on your settings
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Could be it is not detecting the hardware?  Also could be that it already detected same; i.e. the first time you use a flash drive you get the "new hardware" popup.  After that it just loads as it was previously detected.
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u can try folowing methods:\n1. refresh the page by pressing F5 or view>>refresh\n2. Disable firewall and antivirus (normally not recommened but u can try to check)
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That means windows informs you that something has modified on the page you were viewing, maybee a message appeared, it finished loading the page, or other aspects. YOu shouldn't worry about this.
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There is a very strong possibility that this answer could be wrong!\n\nHigh usage of the HD indicates that some programs are running on your computer.  Even if you are not doing anything on the machine, programs could be running in the background.\n\nCheck your task manager to see what is active.\n\nIf you are running winXP then check services.\n\nYou may also be using too much memory.  Again check task manager.  An over active HD could be page swapping to use virtual memory.\nYou may need to buy more memory.