Empty Recycle Bin

[Rob Weigle]

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?

 

[John John (MVP)]

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]

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)]

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

John