I have always wondered why you can do right-click > Refresh. It never seems to do anything. For a millisecond the icons disappear on the desktop and everything else does nothing. Why does windows have this option?
Right-click > Refresh on Desktop:
Steps to Reproduce
Minimize anything open or go to bottom-right corner and click to show desktop. Right click, and click refresh - the 3rd option.
Most likely, you will never need to use this. When you add a shortcut onto your desktop, it should refresh automatically because that is the way the Desktop is programmed in the Windows Operating System. If you have randomly placed your apps (folders, files, and shortcuts) on the desktop, unaligned, refresh will put it back in folder-file order, alphabetically and aligned. If you made a change to the desktop, you may need to use it then, too.
You can read about the refresh button here.
I have used it when my USB to HDMI port is not working correctly and my icons look off. I can right click and press refresh and it flickers the screen and then everything works.
