What does Refresh button actually do...

   

        What Does The Refresh Option In Windows Actually Do? It’s Not What You Think

Most of us constantly keep refreshing our Windows PCs or laptops. Many times, we just do this but we don't know why..?
But, we haven’t of the actual thing the Refresh option does to our PCs. Here is i am going to tell you what it does really...!!

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Until a few days ago, I, being a loyal Windows user from the time when I got hands on my first desktop machine, believed that the Refresh option in Windows clears the system memory, making it clutter free. But, all my beliefs turned out to be false when I finally I dug through the internet for the actual task performed by the Refresh option in Windows.

What actually happens is that Windows has an auto-refresh feature inbuilt by Microsoft which enables the screen to display the changes made to a folder–even desktop is just a folder for your operating system either by you or a third-party application or if you want to re-align the folders on your desktop.

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Sometimes, the auto-refresh option fails to display the change on your screen. So, you have to manually do it yourself by clicking the Refresh button in the context menu. I would like to tell you that no miracle happens when you click the refresh button. It won’t make any changes in the performance.

Most people, including me, have developed a habit of constantly refreshing Windows for no reason. I have shifted to Ubuntu recently and I find myself searching for the Refresh option in the context menu, but it is nowhere to be seen because Linux-based operating systems don’t have it.

It seems like a daily ritual for most of us, our hands involuntarily keep pressing the F5. And some of us even overcome our laziness and refresh windows using a mouse which is a tiresome job, though. So, try to get rid of this bad habit.

Technically... consider a frame generated by your OS as an image. Frames are displayed on your screen one after the other giving you a feel that everything is continuous. Each frame comprises of different  (User Interface) components like background, icons and their names. When each frame is constructed, all the components are placed on it, like first the background, then the icons and their names. The taskbar acts as a layer which is placed on the top of the background.

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The refresh option marks all the components of the screen as dirty, so, the whole screen is recreated in the next frame and displayed on your monitor. That’s the main purpose of #Refresh button...

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