Recycle bin problems

[Guest]

When i look in my recycle bin it shows no icons but when i click on empty
recycle bin it asks me if i want to delete the 52 items it contains, when i
confirm this it makes the noise of screwing up paper like it usually does but
when i click it again it still says there 52 items. i think this may be
something to do with some spyware or adware i accidently installed as when it
started happening loads of popups started coming up. ive tried showing hidden
files and done virus and adware scans but all havnt worked. please help

 

[JaKar]

While I don't have a direct answer for you, I'm not so
sure its spyware or adware. I've recently re-installed XP
Home Edition with SP2 slipstreamed and I get, on
occasion, an empty recycle bin even though I just moved x
amount of files/directories to it. Like you, if I click
to empty the recycle bin it asks me if I want to delete
the files/folders and how many. I also get the recycle
bin sound effect when its done. However, I haven't gone
back in to check to see if the files/folders are still
there. If I dont see anything in the bin, I don't look
again, never gave it a second thought. Its not as common
as it use to be when I had SP1 and all the critical
updates. (I run Ad-Aware, Spybot, AVG Anti-Virus 2-3
times a week and I never get anything, but the usual
tracking cookies).