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]

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

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

 

[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

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

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]

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]

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.

 

[beemer]

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.

understood and thanks,

Beemer

 

[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]

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]

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

thanks
Beemer