Explorer Pulsing/Refreshing every 10 seconds

[rmiller11]

When I bring up Explorer, it pulses, refreshes every 10 to 15 seconds, the hour glass come up for two seconds. How do I stop that from happening? It's driving me cray. I have it doing it on two machines now and don't know how to stop it. Win2000 machine and XP machine.

 

[linney]

See if you can get any clues here.



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You can experiment with this (after backing up Registry).

You can make Windows Explorer constantly refresh and update its files and folder views. Go through the Registry through RegEdit, and navigate through the left-hand pane until you get to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/System/
CurrentControlSet/control/Update item. In the right-hand pane, click on UpdateMode and select Modify. In the Edit window, change 01 to 00. Exit everything and reboot for this to take effect.