Empty Recycle Bin

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In Windows XP Pro SP3 (don't know if it happens in other versions), if I
attempt to Empty an empty Recycle Bin, it asks me if I want to delete
'WINDOWS'. I was smart enough to say NO. Shouldn't that option be grayed out
when your recycle bin is already empy?
 
Re: Empty Recycle Bin

Windows isn't in your Recycle Bin, you probably have corrupt recycle bin
files. You can delete the Recycle Bin and Windows will create a new one
when you reboot. At a command prompt issue:

rd /s /q c:\recycler

John

Rob Weigle wrote:

> In Windows XP Pro SP3 (don't know if it happens in other versions), if I
> attempt to Empty an empty Recycle Bin, it asks me if I want to delete
> 'WINDOWS'. I was smart enough to say NO. Shouldn't that option be grayed out
> when your recycle bin is already empy?
 
Re: Empty Recycle Bin

Thank you, John. It seems to work. With empty recycle bin option to Empty
Recycle Bin is now grayed out. Two things though:

. before the rd command you should do a cd \ (to insure you are in the
root).

. The rd command gets (non-fatal) Access Denied error.

"John John (MVP)" wrote:

> Windows isn't in your Recycle Bin, you probably have corrupt recycle bin
> files. You can delete the Recycle Bin and Windows will create a new one
> when you reboot. At a command prompt issue:
>
> rd /s /q c:\recycler
>
> John
>
> Rob Weigle wrote:
>
> > In Windows XP Pro SP3 (don't know if it happens in other versions), if I
> > attempt to Empty an empty Recycle Bin, it asks me if I want to delete
> > 'WINDOWS'. I was smart enough to say NO. Shouldn't that option be grayed out
> > when your recycle bin is already empy?
>
 
Re: Empty Recycle Bin

You need to be logged on as an Administrator to run the command.

John

Rob Weigle wrote:

> Thank you, John. It seems to work. With empty recycle bin option to Empty
> Recycle Bin is now grayed out. Two things though:
>
> . before the rd command you should do a cd \ (to insure you are in the
> root).
>
> . The rd command gets (non-fatal) Access Denied error.
>
> "John John (MVP)" wrote:
>
>
>>Windows isn't in your Recycle Bin, you probably have corrupt recycle bin
>>files. You can delete the Recycle Bin and Windows will create a new one
>>when you reboot. At a command prompt issue:
>>
>>rd /s /q c:\recycler
>>
>>John
>>
>>Rob Weigle wrote:
>>
>>
>>>In Windows XP Pro SP3 (don't know if it happens in other versions), if I
>>>attempt to Empty an empty Recycle Bin, it asks me if I want to delete
>>>'WINDOWS'. I was smart enough to say NO. Shouldn't that option be grayed out
>>>when your recycle bin is already empy?
>>
 
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