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How do I prevent screen tearing in Windows 7 desktop with Aero disabled?
After disabling all the Windows 7 visual enhancements, I began noticing some screen tearing while playing YouTube videos, dragging windows, etc.. It's very noticeable while looking at this:
Barcode ...
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How to reload a page in Opera without cache?
I'm trying to get Opera 11.61 to reload a page without using cache whatsoever. So far I've tried shift-clicking on the reload button, Ctrl-R, Shift-R, F5. None of these work. The only way I've found ...
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Benefits of clicking Refresh all the time on the Windows desktop
Some people seem to right-click Desktop -> Refresh all the time. They seem to think that it solves computer problems in general, or that one must do it in order to keep the computer working properly. ...
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refresh webpage on background tab in firefox or google-chrome
I would like to keep logged in to a website that automatically logs me out after 10 minutes of inactivity. Is there any tool to do a "Refresh" on a specific background tab for a webpage in firefox or ...
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Custom Windows hotkey to refresh browser window
I work in a double screen environment where I write code on one screen and preview the results in the other (containing Firefox, Chrome etc.).
It would be great if I could somehow make the browser ...
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Stop a site automatically refreshing and playing video
theage.com.au is a news site that loves to reload the page that I'm reading, which annoys the hell out of me. It also automatically starts playing any video on the page as soon as I start scrolling ...
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Why is my mouse lagging?
Don't remember this from earlier, but my mouse is lagging when I refresh specific websites in Chrome and Firefox. I can't observe such lags with Internet Explorer.
Here's a video i made
I tested ...
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Slow XP Desktop Redraw / Refresh
My Windows XP desktop icons have become slow to redraw. The desktop enhancement program Fences has become unusable with "hidden" icons being silhouetted, partially displayed fence titles, extremely ...
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How can I refresh a document I have open in Excel in read-only mode?
I have an Excel document that is stored on a SharePoint Server, which I always have open on my computer in read-only mode because I need to refer to it.
Every so often, in order to get the latest ...
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What is the difference between the refresh command in firefox? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Ctrl+F5 vs Ctrl+R (On Browsers)
What is the difference between Ctrl+F5 and just F5 on firefox? And are there any other ways to refresh firefox?
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All browsers won't reload/refresh, even if Ctrl+F5 is pressed
I'm working on a wordpress theme which is hosted on Hostgator.
Now whenever I add/remove a widget, then I reload the page altered, but nothing happened. Even if I press Ctrl+F5.
It happens on all ...
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How to force a full page refresh (not from cache) in Firefox 4.0?
How do you force reload (not from cache) in Firefox 4.0?
I have seen a lot of supposed theories on the internet, including:
Ctrl + F5
Ctrl + Shift + R
But, in reality, these do not actually work. ...
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How do I force Firefox to check for a new version of page (browser.cache.check_doc_frequency doesn't work)?
When I go to, for example, reddit.com ... the page doesn't automatically show the new content or update my message indicator. I have to manually refresh every time. This is using firefox 3.6.16 on ...
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Powerpoint 2010 has an odd resizing behavior
I am having a display issue in PP2010 (64bit). When I fire up PP and resize the display window, the screen refreshes incorrectly. Also, although you can click around and eventually find the object you ...
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Page fails to load on 1st attempt
I changed from a CISCO wired Cable connection to a Motorola SBP901 wireless connection... After that whenever i try to load a new page the first reply is Server not found. Then i have to hit the ...
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How to refresh Windows XP taskbar's shortcuts icons
Often, I have the Windows XP taskbar's shortcuts icons that don't refresh.
I could strike the F5 key repeated times, the whole desktop redraws fine, but not the taskbar... I have tried hiding and ...
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How can I force Chrome to refresh a page, ignoring cached Flash files?
A couple other questions on superuser.com discuss the shortcut ctrl+F5 in Chrome. In theory, that shortcut should cause Chrome to refresh the current page while ignoring cached content.
However, it ...
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Is there a way to refresh Notepad?
Say, for example, that there's one process that's writing to a file. While the process is running, I opened the file in notepad. The process keeps writing to the file.
Other than closing and ...
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Explorer (Desktop) Stops Refreshing
After using Windows 7 for a while (say, a few hours), Explorer always stops refreshing my desktop, and I have to close it and re-open it. E.g.: When I delete a file, it doesn't seem to go away even ...
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How to refresh pivot data in Excel 2010? (= F9 in 2003)
In Excel 2003 pressing F9 was refreshing the data in pivot table.
How to achieve the same in Excel 2010?
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How to view when page was last refreshed in Firefox
Is there a way to know when the last time a page was refreshed in Firefox? I always have lots of tabs open. For certain pages, it would be helpful to know when it was last refreshed.
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What is the easiest way to make your browser refresh a page every say, 5 seconds?
Is there a browser that supports refreshing a page every say, 5 seconds? Is there an add-on?
If not, is there a more simple way than writing a full (C# or Java) program in order to do that?
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A way to refresh Firefox in the background?
I'm happily typing HTML in Notepad++ on my Windows machine with 2 monitors, one has Notepad++ and the other has Firefox.
After I finished typing the HTML I would like to see the updated result in ...
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Best way to trace what caused a refreshing computer
My computer has an irritating behavior lately. It refreshes every 5 seconds. This is visible because you can see that an application window is flickering and when you select from a combo box, the drop ...
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How to tell Firefox that a file will never change?
Is it possible to specify some files in Firefox to be remembered forever?
For example, a file like http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js will never change, for sure. But ...
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How can I refresh the previews in Chrome's New Tab page?
I am using Chrome 6.0.472.0 dev and the New-Tab-feature. Some of my (sticky) previews were created in an "unlucky" moment, eg. superuser.com before I logged in
or GMail ... for whatever reason that ...
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ReloadEvery on Safari
On Firefox there is an add-on called ReloadEvery that lets you refresh a page on a certain interval. Is there anything like that for Safari?
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determine what is invoking refresh/F5 in WinXP?
My laptop recently started invoking refresh (F5) on its own.
Works OK from start-up/reboot but then for no apparent reason will start refreshing
Initially thought it was a web page scripting issue, ...
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Second monitor is wavy
I have two monitors on my work system.
One of them gets refresh waves in it. Is there any way to fix that?
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Chrome browser caching
I do a lot of development on my local machine and would like to start using Chrome, however I cannot seem to do a hard-refresh (ctrl+f5) or any other key combination to get my browser to forcibly ...
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How to force refresh without cache in Google Chrome?
Does Chrome have an equivalent to Firefox's Ctrl+F5 refresh? I can't seem to find one.
I changed my gravatar last night, and I can see the new one in Firefox after a Ctrl+F5 refresh, but Chrome seems ...
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How to force Internet Explorer (IE) to REALLY reload the page?
When using Internet Explorer 8 to test my web application I often find it doesn't reload the page, so I don't see my changes. This has resulted in a lot of wasted time and frustration wondering why my ...
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Horizontal Wavy Lines on Asus VK221D 22" LCD Monitor
I have an Asus VK221D 22" monitor. I don't recall seeing these horizontal wavy lines when I first setup this monitor a few months ago, but it may have been there. Anyways I see these horizontal wavy ...
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Windows 7 desktop does not automatically refresh
I am using Windows 7.
If I delete something from the desktop, then the icon remains there.
I have to hit F5 or right-click->Refresh to make the desktop refresh. After the refresh, the icon ...
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Adjusting the refresh rate of Firefox Live Bookmarks?
Does anyone know how to adjust how often Firefox Live Bookmarks (a.k.a. Live Titles) refresh in the toolbar?
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How can I do a Cache Refresh in Google Chrome?
I dunno what exactly it's called, by cache refresh I mean, refresh the page after clearing its cache. I don't want to clear the entire browser cache.
I prefer Chrome's Dev panel against firebug... ...
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How do you get the Firefox Auto-Refresh to hold off when you're entering text?
I'm using Firefox with the Auto-Refresh add-in to read all the SO-family sites, but everytime I'm trying to type a question or answer it refreshes and makes me start over. Is there some setting I can ...
