recycle bin

Hello, When I double click the recycle bin, it is opened by Windows Media Centre. There I cannot get a proper list and delete folders or empty it. Why can I not open it with Windows explorer, like anything else and then just delete things? Please advise. Thanks, Rob

Dear All, I have been searching a solution for this strange issue for long. I'm an IT Admin in a windows domain where few PCs are affected with this issue. When users delete files, it gets deleted permanently and do not go to Recycle Bin. Users do get alert that file will be deleted...

In Windows 7, how can I open and delete from my trash, to free drive space? Will I need to defragment?

PLEASE HELP!!! MY FRIENDS TRICKED ME INTO DELETING SYSTEM32 AND I CANT FIND IT IN THE RECYCLE BIN AND IT SAYS MY RECYCLE BIN IS EMPTY :*(

OK, I firmly believe that the Windows Recycle Bin icons are fuggly. So, I want to change them. I've done it in the past with XP. I've also done it on this machine (Windows 8.1). Someone elsewhere said that I'd have to build a .dll file. What? Not the way I've done it before (both XP and 8). I...

Hello again, No matter which undelete programme I try, not one of them will ever find a deleted file. I copy a file to a directory on C: or D:, delete it and then empty the Recycle Bin. Whatever application I care to use, the file, which is very unlikely to have been overwritten, can not...

Dear everyone, I've tried to explain my problem as good as I could, please do not be afraid of asking for more informations :) I hope you guys can somehow help me out. TLDR My external harddrive randomly removes files after installing new motherboard + processor. Some of the files can be...

We have in place Microsoft System Center 2012 which houses our imaging server. We have one 'gold' standard image that we use for all of our devices. When migrating to Windows 7 32-bit, we discovered that the computer when first booting up after imaging that users have issues with double...

hi at windows 8 i deleted some files and moved to recycled bin. after that I made recycled bin empty but as I heard there still are ways to recover deleted files. which program can I use to wipe the deleted data without option to recover it? i know revo uninstaller is good for programs...

HAPPENED TODAY. I haven't switched the laptop off since this happened (in case that helps find it!!). I was working on a Doc and decided to put it into a different folder, which I did. I also happened to empty the Recycle Bin. So the original was deleted! When I went to work again on the...

I've got several copies of a Word file in the recycle bin and want to restore one of them. But when I click restore it disappears from the bin but doesn't seem to make an appearance anywhere else on the computer. What's up?

Hi, I use windows 7 64bit. I want to add "xdelete" to context menu of windows explorer. What is xdelete? Its function is exactly the same as preexisting delete menu, So that if I select some files or folders and click them with right mouse button and press X, it will say "are you sure you want...

I am seeking to get rid of unwanted material on my system prior to backing it up. I have been surprised to learn from programs such as Glary Utilities Disk Space Analyzer that I have on my external hard drive F a huge System Volume Information folder--16.32 GB. Windows Explorer tells me when I...

No idea what I did, all of a sudden I have a Recent Places shortcut on my desktop and I am unable to delete because right click at it does not provide Delete option. I tried to drag/drop the shortcut to Recycle Bin, wouldn't take it. I even "removed" Recent Places from under Favorites folder...

this is related to my last thread windowsforum.com/threads/file-explorer-keeps-crashing-on-certain-folders.196557/ I copied one of the files so I could see what was on it and well it couldn't be emptied from the recycle bin however I copied another file, deleted that one and emptied the recycle...

Selling an old laptop of mine on EBAY. Did a fresh install of Windows 7. For some reason I cannot get permission to delete the "old windows folder" I keep going on to the security tab and setting permission for administrators to have full control of that folder, but it is still not letting me...

Hi A number of threads on this Forum have addressed the problem of a corrupt Windows 7 Recycle Bin. My problem is that after I have; - Opened an elevated Command Prompt window - Run rd /s /q C:\$Recycle.bin on ALL of my drives - Checked that the files have indeed gone! - Restarted windows -...

Hello dear windowsForum friemds, Can someone please instruct me how to delete files with .db extension and shortcuts from the recycle bin? When i right click -> delete, I'm getting "are you sure" -> "yes" -> nothing happens. Thanks a lot in advance for your time

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Hello, My notebook (xp) has recently broke down, and I moved its HDD to my desktop (xp) to access my data. To work with more or less the same environment as before, I set the home dir of the user on the desktop to the directory on the notebook's HDD that used to be my home. I have the same...