Refreshing the system

DaveyM69

Do you mean you want to refresh the entire view in the monitor? If so, you'll have to use some PInvoke and at a minimum, get the desktop's handle and call InvalidateRect or UpdateWindow. You may need to do this for every open window too.

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molesworth

Invalid_Win32_app. wrote:

I am trying to refresh the machine

What exactly do you mean by "refresh the machine"? Do you mean reboot?

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Lost User

molesworth wrote:

What exactly do you mean by "refresh the machine"? Do you mean reboot?

Not Reboot, I am just trying to refresh the PC, like we do by right-clicking on an empty space on the desktop and clicking on the Refresh option from the menu display. Thats what I want to do.

tom572007

Your request is totally dumb! refresh the system doesn't mean anything. Refresh your desktop doesn't mean to refresh your system... Try to be more explicit Rajdeep

Lost User

I think this should do:

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
SendKeys.Send("{F5}");
}

What do you say? PS: How did you know that I am Rajdeep?

Anthony Mushrow

Invalid_Win32_app. wrote:

PS: How did you know that I am Rajdeep?

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Lost User

Hey Rajdeep.NET, did you think that we wouldn't notice if you changed your name? You're still asking strange questions. Now I don't really know about this refresh thing, this is not normally something you even need to consider doing. Why do you even need to do this? Anyway, I'd look into sending a F5 keypress, like you suggested..

Lost User

Is there some comprehensive way to this? I mean to say that this is quite difficult. PS: I only want to refresh the desktop. What about this:

private void Button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e) {
SendKeys.Send("{ENTER}");
}

Please let me know.

padmanabhan N

now that guy has changed his name to x+y=xy?! some one has to take care of his activities....

Padmanabhan

Lost User

Ok Ok!!! Chill now, I haven't asked any strange question this time.

padmanabhan N

y do u frequently change you name.... do you think that we are fools here...

Padmanabhan

Lost User

Not all are fools, rather than you!

padmanabhan N

sit and recollect all your posts and the replies then you will know who is a fool....MR.XYZ

Padmanabhan

tom572007

Invalid_Win32_app. wrote:

Ok Ok!!! Chill now, I haven't asked any strange question this time.

This question is very strange, to refresh your system, you need to reboot your PC (after changing registery keys...). How does windows refreshing itself after an update? It just reboot.. To press F5 on tour desktop only refresh the 'explorer.exe' program, but not your system who's loaded on startup. To press F5 on your application will do anything :) not even refresh your 'explorer' application. Try to discover the basics of windows before trying to hack it...

DaveyM69

It seems the easiest way to do this is to make the shell think file associations have changed. When it does, it redraws the desktop. Not sure how 'expensive' this is - but it works.

SHChangeNotify(SHCNE_ASSOCCHANGED, 0, 0, 0);

[DllImport("shell32.dll")]
static extern void SHChangeNotify(uint wEventId, uint uFlags, uint dwItem1, uint dwItem2);

const uint SHCNE_ASSOCCHANGED = 0x08000000;

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