What is the meaning and function of the refresh of the right mouse button?

Torture your own mouse

The explanation in the Windows XP help documentation is "Refresh the display information with the current data update". This feature is useful for many Windows applications, such as updating the display of file information in the browser, reloading pages in the browser, and so on. The desktop is a special folder, the essence of which is refreshed is still to update the display information.

To illustrate the proper use of "refresh": you are browsing a folder with an explorer (including staring at a particular folder on your desktop without opening anything), and if some background program (e.g. FTP upload) generates some new files in that folder, but does not notify the explorer through the message loop, you need to manually refresh to see the new files. For example, if you're flashgetting a file, open the folder it's in, use the details view, and try refreshing it multiple times, you'll see that the file keeps growing in size.

While updating the display information, Explorer will also rearrange the icons in the way the user presets to keep the view neat and organized.

Refresh" also has some "side hustles". Since it informs the explorer of certain initialization operations, it is possible to make some changes to the registry key settings related to the explorer take effect immediately; Sometimes the explorer is abnormal, and it may be restored by refreshing it on the desktop; Sometimes there is a problem with the graphics card or application that causes a "color patch" to appear on the desktop, which can also be removed by a refresh.

However, the idea that "refresh is refreshing the system, clearing up memory space, and speeding up system response" is misleading for beginners. I really don't know who invented this theory and then spread it widely. A reasonable understanding is:

"Refresh" is a user self-comfort feature designed by Microsoft - the new one is better than the old one, and the refresh must be faster, maybe it will really feel faster after the refresh, so ...... be crazy

I don't know how to develop habits.

Click to the blank space of the desktop, click the right button and don't put it, there will be a drop-down menu, and then left-click to select "Refresh".

Refresh the desktop only for the changed system settings to take effect. For example, if we change the icon for a shortcut on the desktop, the new icon will automatically take effect when we click "OK" or "Apply". But if for some reason the new icon doesn't appear, you'll need to manually refresh it for the new settings to take effect.

In addition, refreshing the desktop has another effect, which is to roughly check the current available resource usage of the system. For example, if a daemon is taking up a lot of system resources and busy, the refresh operation will be slow. If you have a lot of available system resources, the refresh will be very fast. So we can use the simple operation of refresh to roughly check whether the system is currently busy.

Today's interface-based operating systems are all processed by message loops. For example, if you open a web page, the computer will start to cycle through how you do it and respond. Refresh means reopening, which can end the cycle and restart the task at the same time, which helps clear the count cache and release the occupied resources.

Right-clicking on the desktop to refresh is a shortcut to refresh the desktop, and refresh on the web page can reopen the connection and solve the situation that the connection is interrupted and the web page is not opened.

Just refresh the screen, or refresh the web page, or reorder the files in a folder!

The effect is twofold.

1. If the computer is running at a high intensity at this time, it will be very difficult to refresh when you refresh, so you can see whether the computer is relatively idle or busy at this time.

Second, when you don't know what game to play or what work to do on the desktop, you can refresh it to hide your boredom or laziness, but you don't know that this action is exposing your thoughts.

In general, there are 5 possibilities next to the rock:

1. The right mouse button does fail.

Workaround: Repair or replace the mouse.

2. Misuse "Mouse Settings".

Solution: In the control panel, set the mouse to the default hail jujube hui.

3. Improper settings of system optimization software, such as "disable right mouse button" in Almighty Assistant, etc.

Workaround: Set up the optimization software correctly.

4. Viruses and malicious plug-ins "kidnap" input devices.

How to solve the source answer: antivirus or uninstall the plugin.

5. There is an error in the system.

Solution: System repair (mouse driver, etc.) or reinstallation.