Weird XP Home problem - help appreciated

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So I just got a new Gateway PC a month or so ago. Works great, I'm happy. But for some reason, ever since I got it, I go to delete or move a file, and it deletes/moves, but doesn't appear that way. You have to leave the folder and return for it to appear. This just pisses me off.

I'm running XP home, I have Anti-Virus software and I don't do anything sketchier than download songs off WinMX. I think it's been doing this all along. Why?

Posted something to the MS newsgroups but they never respond.

Thanks,
NT

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BizzUUUUUUUMPP.

NT

[Shajen]

what happens if you hit f-5? This should refresh the folder.

I'll look a little deeper when I get caught up.

[TimM]

I know what you mean, and I had this problem on my work machine for a couple of weeks. But I did the F5 thing, and then after a while the problem went away by itself.

[stabn]

Windows Explorer is retarded, sorry. It's obviously supposed to update, but other than being buggy, i'm not sure what why it would fail to update without a manual refresh.