# Windows (Explorer) Question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-explorer-question/84985>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 2, 2001, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-explorer-question/84985 "2001-10-02T15:50:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Spyderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@Spyderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spyderman)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-explorer-question/84985/1 "2001-10-02T15:50:58Z")

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Is there a setting or program that will allow me to be able to automatically refresh my browser,say, every five minutes or so?

Hitting the F5 button is just soooo painfully challenging 😉

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**Author:** ![Evnglion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f04885/32.png) [@Evnglion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evnglion)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-explorer-question/84985/2 "2001-10-02T16:31:39Z")

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there is nothing out thre that I know of, but I am sure writting a small macro or something would perform the task just fine

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**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-explorer-question/84985/3 "2001-10-02T17:12:00Z")

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You could write a JavaScript program that would refresh the page for you by having it open another window under its control and constantly refreshing it.

Trying to not get kicked off free internet? :Þ

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**Author:** ![Mikahw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Mikahw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikahw)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-explorer-question/84985/4 "2001-10-02T17:29:15Z")

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[opera](http://www.opera.com) has that feature built in.

I’m not exactly sure how to activate it, although I probably could figure it out if I were at home right now. It can’t be too hard to figure out, after all, it wasn’t made by Microsoft. 😃

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-explorer-question/84985/5 "2001-10-02T22:29:19Z")

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What browser is this? Is this a Mac or a PC?