Windows 2008 R2 shared files do not automatically show
We found a really annoying issue when implementing our new XenApp 6 desktop. Users were saving files onto the desktop, but they would not appear until they pressed F5. The users desktop is redirected to their Home Drive share. After more investigations we found that this problem occurred for any shared drive, even if it was to \\computername\c$ of the same computer you were on. After searching the Internet we found no way to resolve this issue. There is mention of changing a registry key to "DontRefresh" which had limited success with others but didn't work for us. We found this problem did not exist on another server in our environment and then we started looking into the differences. Eventually we found it Remove the following registry keys HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoRemoteRecursiveEvents HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoRemoteChangeNotify Restart explorer and try again! ...