"Robert Mileski" <r_mile***@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I've made some program in Visual Basic 2005 that works with changing files
> and folders. After I've finished it, the main problem is to refresh the
> Windows OS. I mean the same thing as when we press F5. Than everything
> refreshes and if we have made changes, they are immediately shown.
>
> Could someone help me with this matter? A possible solution or maybe an
> idea
> how to do that?
>
> Suppose that you see in front of you the Windows XP Desktop and you press
> F5
> or from the menu with mouse right click you choose Refresh. That refreshes
> the screen. Or in Explorer the same happens. THAT is what I want to do.
> Not
> reboot the computer. And, refresh is not equal to Rebooting the machine. I
> don't know how you came up with this.
>
> And about the program, for example: The program moves a file from one
> place,
> changes its name, and then again moves the file to the same location. If
> you
> open explorer in that folder, and you execute the above explained program,
> the explorer won't show you the changed name. You must press F5 to refresh
> the Explorer, in order to see that the file has been changed.
>
> Suppose this case:
>
> 1. Open Explorer, or my computer and in C:\ open a folder named Temp
>
> 2. Create a file there named "text.txt"
>
> 3. Leave the explorer open
>
> 4. Now make a program in VB, that renames this file into for example:
> "example.txt"
>
> 5. Now compile and run the program. (The filename is changed without a
> problem)
>
> 6. Now go to the Explorer window, and you will still see there the file
> under the name "text.txt" and not "explorer.txt".
>
> 7. Press now F5, and there it is! You see that the file is changed!
>
> That is what I want to refresh! When I make a change on the hard disk, I
> want all the active programs working with the disk (like explorer) to
> notice
> the change, and refresh themselfs.
>
> I suppose I should do this now through Win API. But I don't know which API
> command actually does the trick.
>
> Was my explanation better ?
>
> ps.. And still another thing why I'm moving a file instead of renaming it.
> Try this: make a program in VB that renames a file called "text.txt" into
> "Text.txt" with the difference of the second file has a big letter T.
> Visual
> basic will report Error, there is already a file named with the same name.
> Operation failed! Than YOU MUST move the file, and put it back with a new
> name.
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Robert Mileski.
>
>
>