.NET Thoughts and Ideas

Yes, I got “bitten” by this bug too

If you google for “Windows 7 Explorer Refresh Bug”, you’ll get the picture. The problem seems to be very wide-spread. I, too, read many posts and tried different suggested solutions. In my case they just did not help.

The way I solved this issue on my PC (Windows 7 x64 Professional) was by deleting “Network Location” entries to places that are no longer accessible.

On the above picture you can see that at some point I added two Network Location items to shares on the machine with IP address 192.168.2.3, the machine was on line at the time. Later, this machine went off-line and this caused Explorer not to refresh itself when folders were modified – created, deleted or re-named.

After I deleted the inaccessible locations, logged off and logged in, the problem got resolved.

Hope it will help somebody else.

I think that if you spend enough time writing code in Visual Studio, sooner or later you will come across this error.

I got this error after changing WCF reference configuration to include generation of asynchronous methods

Next time I went to update references, the error pops up. Cleaning up the solution or deleting all temp files VS creates did not help. What actually solved this problem was starting IDE at the command prompt with ResetSkipPkgs switch like so:

devenv /ResetSkipPkgs