recycle bin

I can't delete a huge 80 megabyte file from my desktop. It hangs up and says preparing to recycle but never does. I left the computer on all night and in the morning it was still "preparing to recycle" the file. I tried moving it to another folder but a window comes up saying thats it's "moving"...

Hi forum, I hope you're having a good day. Please help me with this situation of mine. Summary: The system requires chkdsk for the 2 mechanical hard drives in RAID-1. The disk check has returned lots of "Replacing invalid security id with default security id for file" ... Why is this...

Hello. Just got a new computer with Windows 7 on it. Love it so far, but one small problem. I like to have my "Recycle Bin" right up next to my task bar, in the lower right hand side. I always had it there in XP, but in 7 it won't go any closer then about an inch & a half above my task bar. Is...

the bar of icons on the top of the home screen disapperared I dont know how to bring it back. It had the recycle bin, the multimedia icons (music, games, photos, etc.), internet, security. I want to know how to get it back on my home screen because it was very helpful and useful. please tell...

Alright, I've searched these forums and a number of others and haven't found a solution to my exact problem. Basically what is happening to me is my C Drive where Windows 7 is installed is only saying I have 28gb's of harddrive space left (on a 100gb partition) yet when I've run treeview it...

Hello...I got home to find my PC 's doc's and settings as a shortcut. also I find locks on recycle bin , MSO cache and in users folder all users, default user and Server (my computer name ***not a server or running server OS** running win 7 ultimate)system runns:) but,:confused: but missing all...

Hi I just bought a laptop with windows 7. it has two versions of IE: 32 and 64 bit what i did was this: on the start menu i could see the two original internet explorer icons, so i took the 64 bit icon and dragged it to the desktop to create a shortcut and the icon disappeared from the start...

Each time I connect an external USB hard drive, Windows creates these two directories. Is there a way to tell Windows 7 not to do so?

Hi there, for some reason my desktop items have gone, i have tried right clicking desktop then going to personalization then the desktop icon settings and I have made sure that computer and recycle bin is ticked but it makes no difference. I have also looked at my desktop folder via explorer and...

Hello. I have some problems that appeared 3 days ago . My computer suddenly restarted and several surprises shown up after it successfully started. 1.) No programs ran on start up . ( rocket dock, antivirus and not even gadgets ) 2.) Link Removed due to 404 Error 3.) When Im trying to...

I have been having this problem with my Windows 7 x64 Professional install. Whenever I delete a file to the recycling bin, and then drag it out (to the desktop usually) to restore, the file is renamed to what it would be like in the temp folder. Is this the expected action of Windows 7 and...

Is there a way to tell the total size of all files in the recycle bin? It seems in XP there was a info taskbar on the bottom in XP, but I have not been able to find it in W7. BTW, I am using W7-64.

Can anyone help I've lost MY COMPUTER and the recycle bin icons in my explorer screens also my dvd is not there either but all is working and are showing in computer management and my network . Can use the dvd drive and write to it with nero. Just wondered why i can't see them anymore

I am running Windows 7 Home Premium and want to delete a specific folder. It shows in a Recyling Window that there is some activity and identifies 1915 items and 165 MB but it never finishes and I have to force it to stop. The folder I am referring to is a user folder named "Bob". I had deleted...

So my recycle bin has been fine for awhile, but recently i was in my bin and i dont remember where but i think i accidentally pressed something that made my files into groups like 0-9 and Q-Z and Other. It's been bugging me like crazy and this forum is my last resort. BEFORE it was just the...

After having windows 7 installed on my computer for several days without incident it seems now that whenever I try to do anything with a file large enough to not be copied instantly (either moving it, copying it, or deleting it) explorer.exe will crash and restart. Attempting to empty the...

Hi Folks, my first post, just wish it wasnt in here of all places. I've just installed windows 7 ultimate 32 bit onto my system, I tried the beta and the same thing happened to me with that, I get a smooth install, nothing major, im installing it over XP by the way. Once Windows has done all...

I just got windows 7. I downloaded a file. It's sitting on my desktop. I cannot delete it. If I move it to the recycle bin, nothing happens. If I right-click and press "delete" I get an error message that says "the file is no longer located here". It's says the file has 0kb. If I try to rename...

:confused: So a little background on how I got to my current situation then to the problem. I have 2 WD Hard drives, (C:\)1 for speed (H:\)1 for space... The fast one had windows XP on it which i ended up erasing and replacing with Win7. The one for space I ended up transferring my...

Sooo I've never seen this problem and I don't really know where to start with it. I have two hard drives, Windows on the C and media on S, I decided to clear some space on S, as it was 4/5 full, and deleted a folder that was about 80 gigabytes. The weird thing is it went to the recycle bin...