I got a new one... there's a deleted prior user on my desktop that has 178MB
of stuff in his recycle bin that I would very much like to get rid of... (my
company deleted his user profile without emptying his recycle bin and it had
over 580 files in it).

I inherited the desktop, and I am trying to clean it up but that chunk of
recyccle bin files will not go away even after running WindowWasher. How can
I find those files and get rid of them?

Try going to start, run, and opening C:\RECYCLER (or whatever driver letter
you use).
One of the bins in there should be the bad one. Just, go in and clean it out.
(If you don't see any recycle bins in this folder, make sure to go up to
tools then folder options, hit the view tab, set it to show hidden files and
folders, and un-check hide protected operating system files.)
Let me know if this works for you.

"JulieO" wrote:

> I got a new one... there's a deleted prior user on my desktop that has 178MB
> of stuff in his recycle bin that I would very much like to get rid of... (my
> company deleted his user profile without emptying his recycle bin and it had
> over 580 files in it).
>
> I inherited the desktop, and I am trying to clean it up but that chunk of
> recyccle bin files will not go away even after running WindowWasher. How can
> I find those files and get rid of them?