Empty Recycle Bin

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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?
 
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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
 
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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.
 

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