Recent content by tjazar

You may also want to try disabling the wake function on your network adapter. Click Start, type "device manager", and select Device Manager. Click the arrow next to "Network Adapters", right-click on whatever adapter shows up underneath, and select "Properties". Go to the "Power Management"...

Alright, just find a (perhaps roundabout) solution. Using Process Explorer from Sysinternals (wonderful tool!), I searched for the handle "Standard User" (the name of the old user's folder). It turned up a number of hits, most of which were used by wmpnetwk.exe. After I killed that process, I...

To test out another problem I was facing, I created a new user account. Now I have no use for that account, so I deleted it, but just to be on the safe side I chose to keep all files from the account. So, Windows created a folder on my desktop with the old account's name, and in it were the...

It sounds like you're having a similar problem to what I've experienced. Check out this thread: http://windows7forums.com/windows-7-support/9403-no-desktop-refresh.html. Do you use Windows Live Mail, by any chance?

Oh no! So, the Recycle Bin still works like a charm, but the desktop refresh bug has resurfaced! (By the way, I've gone back to using my original user account.) It seems that Windows Live Mail may be to blame. In the process of typing this post, I closed WLM, and the problem ceased. I have...

So, I finally found out what has been causing this problem: TeraCopy 2.0 beta. I had enabled TeraCopy to be the default copy handler instead of Explorer, and once I disabled that preference, my Desktop and Recycle Bin problems disappeared. Of course, this is after I created a new user account...

Alright, so I just tried booting into Safe Mode, but every log on attempt rebooted the computer, so I started Windows normally. Now, the files and icons will delete just as they should, but dragging the files back from the Recycle Bin still corrupts the name and introduces the padlock icon...

@textureDnB: I can confirm that problem does exist in other folders and on other partitions. However, I have discovered that it only occurs when I drag a file from the Recycle Bin to a folder; if I click "Restore this item", the filename is not corrupted and the padlock icon does not appear...

Hmm... the problem still exists, and now I may have found an additional bug. I just discovered that when I move an item from the Recycle Bin to the Desktop, the file name is corrupted but the file itself is not. I wanted to test the desktop refresh bug to see if it still exists, so I deleted a...

Well, I have installed software lately. A great deal, actually, from browsers (Firefox 3.5.1, Google Chrome, Chromium) to games (Half-Life 2 through Steam) to various utilities (GIMP, Google Earth, Windows Live Writer). I suppose it could be any one of these programs, but narrowing it down...

I noticed a problem on my Win7 desktop about a week or two ago. When I delete files or shortcuts, the icon remains on the desktop until I do a manual refresh. The Recycle Bin icon changes to full (if it was empty), and the file itself is actually no longer available on the desktop, but the...