How to stop restore and recycle folders being added?

[beemer]

I have a USB media player with 500GB hard disc. When I connect it to my
computer running XP Pro SP3 it gets restore and recycle folders added to it
which I do not want. How can I stop this happenning?

regards,

Beemer

 

[Touch Base]

Re: How to stop restore and recycle folders being added?


"beemer" <beemer@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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I have a USB media player with 500GB hard disc. When I connect it to my
computer running XP Pro SP3 it gets restore and recycle folders added to it
which I do not want. How can I stop this happenning?

regards,

Beemer

==================

You probably have your system set to show hidden files and folders.


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Regards,
Touch Base
Report back on the results, good or bad so others may benefit

 

[beemer]

Re: How to stop restore and recycle folders being added?


"Touch Base" <nospam@_nospam.com> wrote in message
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>
> "beemer" <beemer@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> news:%238xUO6eKJHA.1648@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> I have a USB media player with 500GB hard disc. When I connect it to my
> computer running XP Pro SP3 it gets restore and recycle folders added to
> it
> which I do not want. How can I stop this happenning?
>
> regards,
>
> Beemer
>
> ==================
>
> You probably have your system set to show hidden files and folders.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Touch Base
> Report back on the results, good or bad so others may benefit
>

I deliberately have hidden files and folders and systems files set to show.
I still would like my question answered.

I other words I do not want my USB drive to use a restore or a recycle
folder

regards,

Beemer

 

[Twayne]

Re: How to stop restore and recycle folders being added?

> I have a USB media player with 500GB hard disc. When I connect it
> to my computer running XP Pro SP3 it gets restore and recycle folders
> added to it which I do not want. How can I stop this happenning?
>
> regards,
>
> Beemer

Go to the REstore screen. There you'll find a button called Advanced or
something similar where you can tell it which drives to monitor. It
only needs to monitor your boot drive so it's only wasting space on the
other drives; remove them from the list. Restore is ONLY for system
files fo any drive without system files does not need to be monitored.
But windows defaults to monitoring them all for some reason.

Recycle Bin; Not sure, but I think that's nothing but a shortcut.
Sorry; can't help with that one.

HTH

 

[R. McCarty]

Re: How to stop restore and recycle folders being added?

You can't prevent the creation of either. Once a volume is mounted
the system creates a System Volume Information folder and the
current user's SID creates a unique Bin.

"Twayne" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message
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>> I have a USB media player with 500GB hard disc. When I connect it
>> to my computer running XP Pro SP3 it gets restore and recycle folders
>> added to it which I do not want. How can I stop this happenning?
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Beemer
>
> Go to the REstore screen. There you'll find a button called Advanced or
> something similar where you can tell it which drives to monitor. It only
> needs to monitor your boot drive so it's only wasting space on the other
> drives; remove them from the list. Restore is ONLY for system files fo
> any drive without system files does not need to be monitored. But windows
> defaults to monitoring them all for some reason.
>
> Recycle Bin; Not sure, but I think that's nothing but a shortcut. Sorry;
> can't help with that one.
>
> HTH
>

 

[beemer]

Re: How to stop restore and recycle folders being added?


"R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSpam_@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> You can't prevent the creation of either. Once a volume is mounted
> the system creates a System Volume Information folder and the
> current user's SID creates a unique Bin.
>
> "Twayne" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message
> news:up6Q7WmKJHA.5692@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>> I have a USB media player with 500GB hard disc. When I connect it
>>> to my computer running XP Pro SP3 it gets restore and recycle folders
>>> added to it which I do not want. How can I stop this happenning?
>>>
>>> regards,
>>>
>>> Beemer
>>
>> Go to the REstore screen. There you'll find a button called Advanced or
>> something similar where you can tell it which drives to monitor. It only
>> needs to monitor your boot drive so it's only wasting space on the other
>> drives; remove them from the list. Restore is ONLY for system files fo
>> any drive without system files does not need to be monitored. But windows
>> defaults to monitoring them all for some reason.
>>
>> Recycle Bin; Not sure, but I think that's nothing but a shortcut. Sorry;
>> can't help with that one.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>
>
>
understood and thanks,

Beemer

 

[beemer]

Re: How to stop restore and recycle folders being added?


"Twayne" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message
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>> I have a USB media player with 500GB hard disc. When I connect it
>> to my computer running XP Pro SP3 it gets restore and recycle folders
>> added to it which I do not want. How can I stop this happenning?
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Beemer
>
> Go to the REstore screen. There you'll find a button called Advanced or
> something similar where you can tell it which drives to monitor. It only
> needs to monitor your boot drive so it's only wasting space on the other
> drives; remove them from the list. Restore is ONLY for system files fo
> any drive without system files does not need to be monitored. But windows
> defaults to monitoring them all for some reason.
>
> Recycle Bin; Not sure, but I think that's nothing but a shortcut. Sorry;
> can't help with that one.
>
> HTH
>
>
Understood and thanks.

Beemer

 

[Gary Brandenburg]

Re: How to stop restore and recycle folders being added?

Right click the Recycle Bin Icon & go to Properties.
Tick the "Configure drives independently".
Click on the tab for that particular drive & tick the box "Do not move files to the
recycle bin".

You can now delete the Recycler folder on that drive.

*Go to System Restore & click on "System Restore Settings"
Highlight the drive that you want to exclude & click on the "Settings" & tick the box
to "Turn off system restore on this drive"

*You may have to repeat this procedure each session if it's a removable drive & I
haven't been able to remove this folder,even though it's disabled for that drive.
A format may remove that folder but it may return-even though the drive isn't being
monitored.
I tried removing it with "Unlocker" & it produced errors (Event Viewer) & removed all
my monitored drive restore points.
I just learned to live with it after so many failed attempts.
YMMV

~Gary


"beemer" <beemer@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Twayne" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message
> news:up6Q7WmKJHA.5692@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>> I have a USB media player with 500GB hard disc. When I connect it
>>> to my computer running XP Pro SP3 it gets restore and recycle folders
>>> added to it which I do not want. How can I stop this happenning?
>>>
>>> regards,
>>>
>>> Beemer
>>
>> Go to the REstore screen. There you'll find a button called Advanced or something
>> similar where you can tell it which drives to monitor. It only needs to monitor
>> your boot drive so it's only wasting space on the other drives; remove them from
>> the list. Restore is ONLY for system files fo any drive without system files does
>> not need to be monitored. But windows defaults to monitoring them all for some
>> reason.
>>
>> Recycle Bin; Not sure, but I think that's nothing but a shortcut. Sorry; can't
>> help with that one.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>>
> Understood and thanks.
>
> Beemer
>

 

[beemer]

Re: How to stop restore and recycle folders being added?


"Gary Brandenburg" <Gary@whatever.com> wrote in message
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> Right click the Recycle Bin Icon & go to Properties.
> Tick the "Configure drives independently".
> Click on the tab for that particular drive & tick the box "Do not move
> files to the recycle bin".
>
> You can now delete the Recycler folder on that drive.
>
> *Go to System Restore & click on "System Restore Settings"
> Highlight the drive that you want to exclude & click on the "Settings" &
> tick the box to "Turn off system restore on this drive"
>
> *You may have to repeat this procedure each session if it's a removable
> drive & I haven't been able to remove this folder,even though it's
> disabled for that drive.
> A format may remove that folder but it may return-even though the drive
> isn't being monitored.
> I tried removing it with "Unlocker" & it produced errors (Event Viewer) &
> removed all my monitored drive restore points.
> I just learned to live with it after so many failed attempts.
> YMMV
>
> ~Gary
>
>
> "beemer" <beemer@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> news:eb97WqqKJHA.2164@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>
>> "Twayne" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message
>> news:up6Q7WmKJHA.5692@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>>> I have a USB media player with 500GB hard disc. When I connect it
>>>> to my computer running XP Pro SP3 it gets restore and recycle folders
>>>> added to it which I do not want. How can I stop this happenning?
>>>>
>>>> regards,
>>>>
>>>> Beemer
>>>
>>> Go to the REstore screen. There you'll find a button called Advanced or
>>> something similar where you can tell it which drives to monitor. It
>>> only needs to monitor your boot drive so it's only wasting space on the
>>> other drives; remove them from the list. Restore is ONLY for system
>>> files fo any drive without system files does not need to be monitored.
>>> But windows defaults to monitoring them all for some reason.
>>>
>>> Recycle Bin; Not sure, but I think that's nothing but a shortcut. Sorry;
>>> can't help with that one.
>>>
>>> HTH
>>>
>>>
>> Understood and thanks.
>>
>> Beemer
>>
thanks
Beemer