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Interesting Windows Event

Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 2:15 am
by Benjamin
On my Windows XP Media Center PC, Service Pack 2, Version 2002 (Per system info), I was viewing a remote shared directory via Samba. It was showing a million hidden files so I clicked tools, folder options and unchecked show hidden files.

I'm really not sure how Windows works under the hood as I have never studied it. I guess it uses API calls?

Anyway windows sent a refresh signal to all the open windows and the desktop, but the interesting thing is that Internet Explorer responded to the refresh request and refreshed a web page that I had open.

I would have not noticed had it not been on a form. Internet Explorer asked me for confirmation that I wanted to resend the post data.

Weird eh?

Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 3:08 am
by JayBird
Most versions of windows do this, noticed it for a few years now...can be quite annoying if you have a load of IE windows open

Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 3:13 am
by Maugrim_The_Reaper
Yep, always happens. I've never seen a fix for it, and well, it's a small inconvenience since I rarely am using IE to start with. Vista may fix it, who knows. Stranger things have happened...

Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 6:03 am
by Chris Corbyn
Internet explorer and windows explorer are integrated. That's how you end up in a windows explorer type folder when go to an FTP site. It's also why windows won't look anything like it does if you remove *all* occurences of the internet explorer files.

There used to be a (unofficial) patch you could download which stripped out every IE file from Windows 98 and you were basically left with a windows 95 looking system but it did run much faster.