Refresh Windows Explorer in Win7

Question

My program sets \"HKCU\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Advanced\" value \"Hidden\". Hovewer I\'m not able to refresh the e

Answer 1

I don't know about Open/Save dialogs, but you can get a list of open explorer windows with COM automation, the Shell.Application object has a collection of windows, or CoCreate IID_IShellWindows directly, each window in the list has a refresh method.

WSH/JScript:

for(var sw=new ActiveXObject("Shell.Application").Windows(),i=0;i

I don't know about C#, but here are examples dealing with shell windows in WSH/JScript and c++