Windows XP desktop keeps refreshing every 10 or so minutes

[Ext User(Wayne)]

Since installing SP2, XP continually updates the desktop. I cannot see
the process that is doing this, but is there a reason for this?

[Ext User(steam3801)]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 20:56:16 +1000, Wayne <none@isp.com> - in a
blinding flash of brilliance - wrote:

>Since installing SP2, XP continually updates the desktop. I cannot see
>the process that is doing this, but is there a reason for this?

"Updates the desktop"???
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steam3801
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[Ext User(Wayne)]

steam3801 wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 20:56:16 +1000, Wayne <none@isp.com> - in a
> blinding flash of brilliance - wrote:
>
>
>>Since installing SP2, XP continually updates the desktop. I cannot see
>>the process that is doing this, but is there a reason for this?
>
>
> "Updates the desktop"???

Updates/Refreshes - I have no idea what it is doing, nor why it is doing it.

Every so often the desktop icons flicker.

[Ext User(Fred)]

Wayne wrote:
> Since installing SP2, XP continually updates the desktop. I cannot
> see the process that is doing this, but is there a reason for this?

Maybe your icon cache is too small
http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/57/

I also see that Kelly's Corner have a regedit to turn icon refreshing off
and on
Line 157 http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

[Ext User(Whatcher?)]

"Fred" <bluser@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:4hpjmrFn8h2U1@individual.net...
> Wayne wrote:
>> Since installing SP2, XP continually updates the desktop. I cannot
>> see the process that is doing this, but is there a reason for this?
>
> Maybe your icon cache is too small
> http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/57/
>

Watch out with those bastards. I bought Tweak Manager a few years back with
a 1 year licence, got about 5 months of updates out of it and they didn't
put any others out. They basically told me "nothing you can do about it". I
wouldn't buy from those shonks.

[Ext User(Whatcher?)]

"Fred" <bluser@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:4hpjmrFn8h2U1@individual.net...
> Wayne wrote:
>> Since installing SP2, XP continually updates the desktop. I cannot
>> see the process that is doing this, but is there a reason for this?
>
> Maybe your icon cache is too small
> http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/57/
>

HAHAHA! Still the same version!

[Ext User(Greg)]

"Wayne" <none@isp.com> wrote in message
news:44b78ed6$0$21712$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au...
> steam3801 wrote:
>> On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 20:56:16 +1000, Wayne <none@isp.com> - in a
>> blinding flash of brilliance - wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Since installing SP2, XP continually updates the desktop. I cannot see
>>>the process that is doing this, but is there a reason for this?
>>
>>
>> "Updates the desktop"???
>
> Updates/Refreshes - I have no idea what it is doing, nor why it is doing
> it.
>
> Every so often the desktop icons flicker.

Your computer has been affected by some spyware. It couses the icons to get
shuffled up like a pack of cards every now and then.

[Ext User(Greg)]

"Greg" <g12345567@no.spam.yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
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>
> "Wayne" <none@isp.com> wrote in message
> news:44b78ed6$0$21712$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au...
>> steam3801 wrote:
>>> On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 20:56:16 +1000, Wayne <none@isp.com> - in a
>>> blinding flash of brilliance - wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Since installing SP2, XP continually updates the desktop. I cannot see
>>>>the process that is doing this, but is there a reason for this?
>>>
>>>
>>> "Updates the desktop"???
>>
>> Updates/Refreshes - I have no idea what it is doing, nor why it is doing
>> it.
>>
>> Every so often the desktop icons flicker.
>
> Your computer has been affected by some spyware. It couses the icons to
> get shuffled up like a pack of cards every now and then.
forgot to mention or some computer virus. Seen this happen many times
before, but not for a long time.

[Ext User(Wayne)]

Fred wrote:
> Wayne wrote:
>
>>Since installing SP2, XP continually updates the desktop. I cannot
>>see the process that is doing this, but is there a reason for this?
>
>
> Maybe your icon cache is too small
> http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/57/
>
> I also see that Kelly's Corner have a regedit to turn icon refreshing off
> and on
> Line 157 http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
>
>

Since adding the cache key, it does not appear to be happening anymore.