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Old March 25th 12, 11:50 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default Recycle bin

On 23/03/2012 15:47, Dave-UK wrote:

"Derek" wrote in message
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I keep having trouble empting the recycle bin in the boot partition.
Only way to do it is to take ownership of the icon in C,
then type 'rd /s /q C:\$Recycle.bin' in a elevated command prompt.

Haven't had any problems with other partitions and external drives.
I've done a chkdsk and it doesn't find any errors.


Using Win7 Ultimate x64 on a 500GB Seagate SATA-II 3.0Gb/s disk drive.


This might help (1st item on list):
http://support.microsoft.com/mats/wi...der_diag/en-us



It doesn't work, says 'thanks for running automated troubleshooter, we
did not detect any problems and no fixes were applied'.

I can't see the files in explorer, when I right click the recycle bin
the empty recycle option is greyed out. Most other programs don't see
the files either.

Only way I know there are files in the bin is during a malware scan or,
if they are fragmented, a defrag program.

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