Free Tool: Refresh the Desktop Programmatically


	Free Tool: Refresh the Desktop Programmatically

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11-28-2007 8:07 PM

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Free Tool: Refresh the Desktop Programmatically

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/172a8010-d383-49ea-83d1-963a5b3b8b2b/6893BE53-9E0C-44A6-92C2-79B70B061134/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.sepago.de/helge/2007/11/22/free-tool-refresh-the-desktop-programmatically/" href="http://blogs.sepago.de/helge/2007/11/22/free-tool-refresh-the-desktop-programmatically/" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.sepago.de</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.sepago.de/helge/2007/11/22/free-tool-refresh-the-desktop-programmatically/"><DIV class="itemhead">
				            <H3><A rel="bookmark" href="http://blogs.sepago.de/helge/2007/11/22/free-tool-refresh-the-desktop-programmatically/">Free Tool: Refresh the Desktop Programmatically</A></H3>
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				          </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.sepago.de/helge/2007/11/22/free-tool-refresh-the-desktop-programmatically/"><P> 	I recently had the requirement to refresh the Windows desktop after certain changes had been made to Explorer’s registry entries. This seems simple at first: klick on any item on the desktop and then press F5. It wasn’t, though. The registry changes would be made upon logon by a software installation agent. It was expected by the customer that the end user see the the effects of the change immediately without any user intervention. That sent me hunting for a solution on the internet. I came across many forum posts that showed that many others already had exactly the same requirement. Interestingly, none of the proposed solutions actually worked. Except for one, which I found at last.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.sepago.de/helge/2007/11/22/free-tool-refresh-the-desktop-programmatically/"><P><STRONG>How to Do it</STRONG></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.sepago.de/helge/2007/11/22/free-tool-refresh-the-desktop-programmatically/"><P>The solution, once found, is simple, as always. There is an API function that tells the shell that file associations have changed:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.sepago.de/helge/2007/11/22/free-tool-refresh-the-desktop-programmatically/"><DIV class="codesnip-container"><A href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb762118.aspx">SHChangeNotify</A> (SHCNE_ASSOCCHANGED, 0, 0, 0);</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.sepago.de/helge/2007/11/22/free-tool-refresh-the-desktop-programmatically/"><P><STRONG>Coding it</STRONG></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.sepago.de/helge/2007/11/22/free-tool-refresh-the-desktop-programmatically/">You can find it <A title="DesktopRefresh.exe" href="http://blogs.sepago.de/helge/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/desktoprefresh.exe">here</A>.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6893BE53-9E0C-44A6-92C2-79B70B061134/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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