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Steve Hawkins
Having been 'tidying' via Add/remove programmes, I wanted to check back on
what had been deleted but found nothing in the bin but a few personal files.
A bit of reading in these columns and I find that each user account seems to
have its own bin, but where do the systems files and shared programmes go?
When I follow instructions to correct a putative error and begin by typing
%systemdrive%\recycler in the run box, I get an Explorer window showing 6
sub folder codes. This appears to be a part of the C: drive tree rather
than the 'My Computer' section, and I thought that would mean one for each
user account, but contrary to expectations, clicking on any of these six
folders opens the same list of files from my own bin - though curiously in
different orders!
I also note that above this Recycler folder is another called Recycled. I
assume this must be left over from a previous system and that XP is only
using the Recycler one?
I have an account on the welcome screen called Admin (though I did not
delete the programme files using this account), and, testing this, I go to
what appears to be exactly the same Recycler folder, and it does indeed have
6 more coded folders in it. These however have a different set of deleted
files in, and the same ones in each folder! And still I have not found all
the files I have deleted! Perhaps the rest must have gone in the system's
own administrator account.
Now, as I have administrator privileges I was expecting to be able to view
all the files that had been deleted from the pc at once. Moreover, I had
assumed that the 'C:' tree would be the same from whoever's admin account it
was viewed!
Can somebody explain these curious findings to me, and tell me:
where are deleted programme and system files supposed to go;
how I can easily look at ALL the files that have been deleted from the pc at
one log on;
why each user has 6 delete boxes with 6 copies of all the deletions in;
why the 'C:' drive tree is not the same for all 'administrators' who view
it?
I am sure I will not be alone in wanting to know what is going on here!
Thanks in advance,
Steve_H
what had been deleted but found nothing in the bin but a few personal files.
A bit of reading in these columns and I find that each user account seems to
have its own bin, but where do the systems files and shared programmes go?
When I follow instructions to correct a putative error and begin by typing
%systemdrive%\recycler in the run box, I get an Explorer window showing 6
sub folder codes. This appears to be a part of the C: drive tree rather
than the 'My Computer' section, and I thought that would mean one for each
user account, but contrary to expectations, clicking on any of these six
folders opens the same list of files from my own bin - though curiously in
different orders!
I also note that above this Recycler folder is another called Recycled. I
assume this must be left over from a previous system and that XP is only
using the Recycler one?
I have an account on the welcome screen called Admin (though I did not
delete the programme files using this account), and, testing this, I go to
what appears to be exactly the same Recycler folder, and it does indeed have
6 more coded folders in it. These however have a different set of deleted
files in, and the same ones in each folder! And still I have not found all
the files I have deleted! Perhaps the rest must have gone in the system's
own administrator account.
Now, as I have administrator privileges I was expecting to be able to view
all the files that had been deleted from the pc at once. Moreover, I had
assumed that the 'C:' tree would be the same from whoever's admin account it
was viewed!
Can somebody explain these curious findings to me, and tell me:
where are deleted programme and system files supposed to go;
how I can easily look at ALL the files that have been deleted from the pc at
one log on;
why each user has 6 delete boxes with 6 copies of all the deletions in;
why the 'C:' drive tree is not the same for all 'administrators' who view
it?
I am sure I will not be alone in wanting to know what is going on here!
Thanks in advance,
Steve_H