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Thanks RussB – I’ll check these suggestions 🙂

Have a look here Michele : http://www.apple.com/uk/icloud/features/?cid=wwa-uk-kwg-features-com&siclientid=6297&sessguid=1bb48e78-41a8-4707-b46c-d106aa6a597c&userguid=1bb48e78-41a8-4707-b46c-d106aa6a597c&permguid=1bb48e78-41a8-4707-b46c-d106aa6a597c

I don’t have any ‘i’ devices – just MS based Laptop and an Android Tablet – so I can’t comment on the iCloud system……

Hope you find something of use at the link above….

Glad you got it sorted Michele – it makes a change for me to help someone on this forum, after all the help I’ve received in the past 🙂

I know this is an old thread but I was experiencing this problem and after some research, I found a cure
and hope it may help others who may be having the same problem 🙂
It applies to Windows 7 and in my case, the 32 bit Home Premium version but may work with other versions……

Enter the regedit procedure.
Right click HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and click Find
Type dontrefresh in the search box and then hit enter
After a short while, you should see the DontRefresh entry in the Right Hand section.
The Data value will probably be set to ‘1’
Right click it, choose Modify and change the value to ‘0’
Boot your computer – your Desktop should now refresh properly.

Just as a precaution, it might be a good idea to create a restore point before editing the registry…..

Hi ibyte,
Thanks for you suggestion and it certainly is an alternative solution, provided the computer is always closed down between uses. However, my friend just prefers to put her laptop into ‘Sleep’ mode, rather than close down, which avoids the long boot process. I could use you suggestion and just ask her to close down her laptop every now and then, which would do the trick.
CCleaner is already installed on her laptop to allow me to do occasional maintenance for her.

As I mentioned in a previous post in this thread, I have now added shortcuts to her favourite websites, on her Bookmarks (Favourites) Toolbar, and she just Right clicks on them and chooses ‘Incognito’…….. She seems quite happy with this procedure 🙂

Thanks again for your suggestion……

Thank You for your replies – your time and efforts are truly appreciated 🙂

ClarkC : Your suggestion certainly seems to be a feasible solution and I’ll try that approach and see how she gets on……..

Ruirib : There is a direct shortcut to Chrome on the desktop, but this only opens Chrome and then the URL addresses have to be typed in to access specific websites. To make things easier for her, I created several additional shortcuts on the desktop, containing her favourite URLs.

I’ve found another possible solution by creating a bunch of shortcuts on the ‘Bookmarks’ Toolbar, which allows the desktop to be a bit less cluttered. If any of these Toolbar shortcuts are ‘Right Clicked’, there is a direct option in the drop-down menu, to ‘Open in Incognito Window’, which hopefully will help fix the problem…….

I still can’t understand why Chrome doesn’t include the simple option to ‘Clear the Cache on Exit’ or some equivalent setting…….

Once again, thank you all for your responses 🙂

Hi ruirib,
Thanks for your suggestion, but I’m afraid I was unable to follow the details in that link…..

First, I tried following this instruction :
“In Windows, you locate the Chrome shortcut (on the desktop, start menu or taskbar), right-click it and select properties. The shortcut tab should open in a new window. Locate the Target field in the tab and append the cache directions to the end of the field, e.g.

C:UsersusernameAppDataLocalGoogleChromeApplicationchrome.exe –disk-cache-dir=”d:cache” –disk-cache-size=104857600 ”

However, the text shown does not appear in the ‘URL’ shortcuts on the desktop…
For example the shortcut to eBay…..

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The next instruction :
“Now another step is required to ensure that Chrome is using the right cache location and size when a link is clicked (this is only necessary if Chrome is the default system browser). Windows users need to open the Windows Registry and do some Registry hacking for this. Open the Registry with Windows-R, typing regedit and the enter key.

Now locate the Registry key

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTChromeHTMLshellopencommand

You should find a path to the Chrome executable there. ”

There is no ‘Path to the Chrome executable there’ !! as can be seen in this screenshot (Chrome IS the default browser)

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I also tried the following :
“Instead of using parameters to set the cache location and size of the Chrome web browser, system administrators can also use policies to do so. This is how it is done in Windows:

Open the Windows Registry by tapping on Windows-R, typing regedit and hitting the enter key.
Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREPoliciesChromium
Add the Dword DiskCacheSize with a right-click on Chromium and the selection of new > Dword (32-bit value) from the context menu.
Give it a value in bytes.”

However, there is no mention of ‘Chromium’ in the ‘Policies’ section……

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Maybe the answer would be as you suggested – a batch file on the desktop and instructions to run it every so often……

If you have the time, could you suggest the format of a suitable batch file ?

Thanks Again.

Thank You for your reply 🙂 Unfortunately, it doesn’t fully address the problem.
It works fine if the shortcut is just used to open Chrome, but doesn’t work on shortcuts which are configured to link to URLs……

The reason I’m looking for a solution to the problem is that I’m trying to configure a friend’s computer who is not at all ‘Computer Savvy’. I placed several shortcuts on the desktop, which link to favourite websites, to make the operation as simple as possible for her.
I’ve just recently cleaned up her PC which was running slow and in a bit of a mess, with loads of useless junk files and a HUGE Chrome Cache, which alone, was taking up hundreds of Mbytes. She does not feel capable of carrying out ‘maintenance’ and is very apprehensive of any such tasks.

So I thought it would help to stop the build up of a large Cache, if I could find a way of automatically clearing the Cache when Chrome closes or restarts.

Thank you very much for your responses 🙂

The Batch file did the trick Medico!! 🙂 You’re a STAR!!

As suggested by CLiNT, I’ve added the batch file to my ‘Utilities’ Folder…….

During my search on the Internet for solutions to the problem, I found many reports of the fault, so it seems to be quite common 🙁

I carried out several Malware scans, Virus Scans (AVG) and SFC /scannow – no problems reported by either process.

Some of the suggested ‘cures’ which I tried earlier were :

1. Right click the desktop > Select View and then Show desktop icons.

2. Right click desktop > personalization > change desktop icons > restore default > ok

3. Start button > Control Panel > System and Security > Find and fix problems > Change settings > Set Computer Maintenance to Off.

4. If you create desktop shortcuts to removable storage places such as NAS the icons will disappear from time to time because Windows 7 has a built in task schedule to clean up broken and unused links. To prevent the task from running you need to disable the task in the task schedular: start-programs-accessories-system tools-task scheduler. Expand the tree in the left hand pane until you get to Task Scheduler Library-Microsoft-Windows-Diagnosis.
In the right hand pane, right click the task named Scheduled and click Disable.

5. Tried turning off Desktop Cleanup

None of the above cured the problem……

I would assume so – however, I’ve not seen any actual reference to ‘6000’ or ‘6001’ – just the details in my last posting.

Hi Dick,

Apologies for late reply – I’ve been away from home (without Internet Access)

In answer to your specific question, the build version of my original Win 7 was reported as : Version 6.1 (Build 7601: Service Pack 1). Fred’s procedure worked fine but I had to use the telephone activation method – bit of a pain with all these numbers – but worth the effort I suppose……….

Cheers !

Hi Dick,When I downloaded the original ISO file, it showed as having a WinZip Icon and I naturally assumed that it was a ZIP file…. (Wrong !!!)
I then tried burning the downloaded file to a DVD and got an error message as I reported above.

Anyway, that file proved to be corrupted, but I didn’t realise this until I downloaded another copy from a different website (Webtrickz.com),
even though it ‘points’ to the same download source (http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/win/X17-24208.iso)

I’ve now burned a successful ISO Disk, re-installed Windows 7 and everything is working fine – including validation 🙂

Thanks to all for your input …….

I tried burning the file to a DVD using the facility within Windows 7 but received an error saying that the file could not be burned and that it was incompitable……

I have downloaded the file again, from a different website, and this time it is a larger size than the first download so the first download must have been faulty……
The new downloaded file burned successfully to DVD – hopefully I can now re-install Win 7 …….

Does anyone have any idea why the Zipped ISO file will not Unzip – as mentioned in my post above timed 2013-10-18 14:09 ??

Hi Dick-Y,
Thanks for your post. I’ve found an alternative method 🙂
Right Click Computer > Properties > Help > About Windows and the new window shows the version……..