How to refresh the Windows Explorer and Desktop program.

Question

Is there any way to pro-grammatically  send the F5 (refresh command) to Windows Explorer and the Desktop? I used Spy++ in explorer and noticed the message WM_UPDATEUISTATE. Can I use this for both explorer and desktop. How can I get the window handle to pass the message to?

Thanks
Rajeev

Answer 1

InvalidateRect()

Answer 2

To find the window handle call FindWindow()

Answer 3

Read JiJo Ray's answer in this old thread

Answer 4

Hello Rajeev,

Have you got any progress on this issue? Would you mind letting me know the result of these suggestions? If you have any additional question, welcome to post here.

Have a great day!

Thanks,
Rong-Chun Zhang
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Answer 5

Search for "WM_SETTINGCHANGE shellstate"

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Answer 6

Thanks for all the replies. I used SHChangeNotify to solve my issue.

Rajeev