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Old March 24th 12, 12:07 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Wolf K
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Default Recycle bin

On 23/03/2012 6:37 PM, Peter Jason wrote:
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:40:31 -0400, Wolf
wrote:

On 23/03/2012 8:01 AM, Derek wrote:
I keep having trouble emptying the recycle bin in the boot partition.
Only way to do it is to take ownership of the recycle.bin 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.



CCleaner. Free. Cleans up trash files, too. Can erase data, too.

Wolf K.


I have the latest CCleaner, but I haven't found a way for it to delete
registry entries (such as USBSTOR). Is there some way to do this with
CCleaner. I can get it to delete various log files in windows - but
the registry sees immune.
Peter


CCleaner's Registry Cleaner is "conservative", ie, safe. Run it, reboot,
and see if that fixes the problem.

USBSTOR is AIUI a hardware key. CCleaner won't AFAIK get rid of obsolete
hardware references. The reason (I surmise) is that deciding which
hardware keys are obsolete requires data that isn't in the registry
itself. I mean, you know that a given USBSTOR key is obsolete or
incorrect, but how could the software know? I'm afraid such keys must be
removed by hand. You could, I suppose, remove all USBSTOR references,
power down and reboot and let Win7 "find new hardware" and create new
registry keys. I've never done that, so don't take this suggestion too
seriously, leastways not without other advice.

By contrast, obsolete references to software are easy: if software is
current, then there are keys in certain places. If those keys are
missing, then any other keys referring to that software are redundant
and can be removed.

FWIW, I run the registry cleaner about once every couple of months, more
often if I've been trying out software.

I hope this answer is at least partly relevant. Good luck.
Wolf K.
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