I recommend the logoff or reboot. Killing the shell can have repercussions depending on apps that are running: Certain apps can become impossible to bring back to the foreground. Certain tray apps will not recover back into the system tray. Etc. YMMV, but it can happen.
-- Espi On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 2:20 AM, James Rankin <[email protected]> wrote: > Guess this one needs a logoff (or at least a restart of the shell), > because gpupdate doesn't cut it in this situation :-( > > > On 22 October 2013 10:06, Micheal Espinola Jr > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> yea - thats what gpupdate is for - but it depends on what in the policy >> is being updated. Something may require a logoff,while others a reboot. >> >> -- >> Espi >> >> >> >> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 1:27 AM, James Rankin <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Well, the shell, rather, my bad. >>> >>> Basically I am changing some GPO settings mid-session, and they apply to >>> explorer.exe (restricting drives in My Computer), so I need to give >>> explorer a bit of a kick to pick up the changed settings from the Registry. >>> So far, all I managed to come up with is terminating and restarting >>> explorer - does the trick, to be fair. >>> >>> Actually (thinking out loud), I wonder if gpupdate might do the same >>> thing if I run it? >>> >>> >>> On 22 October 2013 09:21, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> What do you mean by “refresh” the desktop? The “desktop” is just a >>>> shell folder(s)**** >>>> >>>> ** ** >>>> >>>> *From:* [email protected] [mailto: >>>> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *James Rankin >>>> *Sent:* Tuesday, 22 October 2013 7:17 PM >>>> *To:* [email protected] >>>> *Subject:* [NTSysADM] Desktop refresh**** >>>> >>>> ** ** >>>> >>>> One final thing - is there any way to programatically sort of "refresh" >>>> the desktop? At the moment I'm having to kill and restart explorer.exe, >>>> which does the trick, but feels like smashing a door down with a >>>> sledgehammer rather than subtly picking the lock.**** >>>> >>>> ** ** >>>> >>>> Cheers,**** >>>> >>>> ** ** >>>> >>>> ** ** >>>> >>>> -- >>>> *James Rankin* >>>> Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) >>>> http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk**** >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> *James Rankin* >>> Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) >>> http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk >>> >> >> > > > -- > *James Rankin* > Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) > http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk >
