Automatic refresh doesn't work in File Explorer, Desktop, Recycle etc.

GREAT NEWS SO FAR !!! I think I got it and I'm not even sure how !
Last thing I was trying out was uninstalling all network adapters in Device Manager - I was going through all possible solutions on various websites and someone somewhere suggested this worked for them, so I gave it a try and initially got into bigger mess as I lost my local area connection and could only connect via wi-fi. I was also experimenting with some driver updates. I'm not sure if this did the trick... also I did restart & was previously going through almost all from the following - could be option 8 or 10 :
What to do when Windows Explorer doesnt refresh | ITworld

Automatic refresh now works smoothly everywhere - Desktop, Windows Explorer, both C: and external drives.

PS. Some other things things I've also changed recently is Performance Options / Selected - Adjust For Best Appearance, I uninstalled some programs like GoogleDrive, CyberGhost, WindowsUpdateAssistant...

Its hard to tell what made the difference, but whats most important is that annoying issue seems to be solved and I can properly work with files and folders once again.

Another positive & significant change, for the first time available Windows updates are showing up in Settings,
this has never happened before, it has to be that refresh & updating problem are somehow connected, hopefuly now I'll be able to update as well :

[QUOTE=Paddy;773356]GREAT NEWS SO FAR !!! I think I got it and I'm not even sure how !
Last thing I was trying out was uninstalling all network adapters in Device Manager - I was going through all possible solutions on various websites and someone somewhere suggested this worked for them,
Actually it worked for me, Thank You so much. It was the ethernet driver that was causing problems

Same here - after having struggled a lot of time with this issue i came up upon this thread and sure enough after removing some virtual network adapters i had installed, problem went away.
Go figure!

Paddy said:

[..] also experimenting with some driver updates. I'm not sure if this did the trick... also I did restart & was previously going through almost all from the following - could be option 8 or 10 :
What to do when Windows Explorer doesnt refresh | ITworld

Automatic refresh now works smoothly everywhere - Desktop, Windows Explorer, both C: and external drives.
[...]

while I haven't tried these, this one worked for me:

Code:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WOW6432Node\CLSID\{BDEADE7F-C265-11D0-BCED-00A0C90AB50F}\Instance]
"DontRefresh"=dword:00000000
; https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-files/win-10-64-bit-file-explorer-auto-refresh/703492e6-dffb-4344-9699-7e41b2c4ddee?auth=1