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I have seen many all computer users around me doing tons of refreshes thinking that they are speeding up the process. Time to throw some light on it. 
What you do?
You clicked on something which is taking a while to load and there you start refreshing it.
What you think?
It is going to speed up the process as you are telling it to do it quickly. Isn’t it?
Point to think about
If the process was to be made fast, then why one would bottleneck the speed. Even if it was and you want a faster processing then why is there no automated option of refreshing it.
What’s the point?
What it actually do is that it sends a instruction of re-drawing the complete display on the screen. That means while your computer is busy with something you are just giving it something else do with something that is already going on. Instead of making things fast, you are delaying the processing as now it also needs to re-draw the whole display.
Why was refresh made then?
It was made to re-draw the display. You made some changes. Although the changes are made but they are not reflected immediately on the display. By refreshing, you are just telling the computer to refresh the display. Thats it.
It can’t get better than this. Still you have any query, feel free to ask in the comments. Are you also in a habit of doing tons of refreshes? Say it in the comments.
Tags: benefits of refresh · refresh · right click · tech myth15 Comments
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I had this habit and eventually I got rid of it.
When I see other people doing this, I think that they’re just dumb
@Shankar
Spread the word.
I use refresh only in my browser. hehe.
Cleared my doubts buddy. I also have the habit of doing it.
@Madhur
You are never too late for changing the habits that u are addicted to.
lol , a point well highlighted, but at the time windows loads, it does make it load the shell a lot quicker, but ONLY once at the windows load. Other than that, its just a myth
@Atof
Thanks for your comment.
Well I use refresh, but not for increasing the speed. Sometimes when you copy lot of items from a folder, then the files are arrnaged randomly, so when you refresh it, it gets arranged. I hope you got my point. I feel refresh is not about increasing the speed.
@Nirmal
Auto arrange does that only. Refreshing the view just refreshes the file list and then they are arranged.
I too have seen many people doing this thinking the same. Its really funny to see people clicking refresh like hell while waiting for an extremely slow program to load
@Beta3
I just make them understand the fact but some of them are too addicted to it.
I am an addict to this attitude
@chuks
Kill the addiction of refreshing again and again.
While I agree that many people are ignorantly addicted
to the desktop-right-click-refresh, I do find that some people (such as me) use it on rare occasions to see whether MS-Windows is quick or responsive enough (:!:) for our needs.
When we right-click and refresh, we can get a feel of the time it actually takes (default is supposed to be 400 milliseconds) to display the content menu, and whether the refreshing of the desktop icons is instantaneous as well.
If either or both of these actions takes longer than expected, it would indicate that the explorer.exe shell process is still “hooked”
by an unresponsive (or background) application. Then it is time to bring up the Task Manager and hunt down the rogue app. 
haha i actually developed a habit of this recently. thanx for clearing that up
@Vivek
I agree.
@Rhahkeem
You are welcome.