recycle bin

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...

I was trying to get rid of the desktop shortcut icons's arrows and end up covering them with some kind of layer. I was using this application from frameworx, fx visor. Now all my icons except the recycle bin are all covered. Any solution to fix ths problem?

:mad:Hi, I think my last post was in the incorrect location..Sorrry if I'm double posting. Drew, Thanks for the Quick Launch, working fine. However, I made a "Short Cut" icon from an excel file from a different hard drive and copied it to the desktop. Then I dragged it to the new "Quick...

Hi there, I've been trying to delete this folder and whenever I try to delete, the recycle notification shows up and for the last 20 minutes. The notification says - "Preparing to recycle" and hasn't changed for the last 20 minutes. Also in task manager, my explorer.exe is always around 50 -90...

Are there any apps that can provide a 'Shred' option to the right-click context menu? I'm currently using 7600 RTM build of Windows. I was using Tune-Up Utilities for this and it was very useful as I could switch deletion methods on the fly depending on how sensitive the file that I wanted to...

I noticed a problem on my Win7 desktop about a week or two ago. When I delete files or shortcuts, the icon remains on the desktop until I do a manual refresh. The Recycle Bin icon changes to full (if it was empty), and the file itself is actually no longer available on the desktop, but the...

All my desktop icons are missing on x64 RC, if i go to Computer/Desktop I can see that there should be several on there but when I return to desktop none of them are displayed. I have gone to Personalization/Change Desktop Icons and turned on Recycle Bin etc but still nothing. Anyone any ideas?

Hey people. A really irritating problem. I can't see the folder total size in windows explorer. When you stand in any folder and select all, the status bar only shows you the number of files. You can see the in the details pane the actual size of each file, but you cannot see the...

The Tweaking with Vishal web site writes up a quick registry hack that adds Recycle Bin, Network Connections, Admin Tools, or even Search to your My Computer window. The process works by adding a single key to the registry for each icon you want to add to the My Computer window. To add the...

This is going to be rather complicated to explain but here goes my best attempt... I have the OS installed on the C drive. I have all of the documents mapped to a seperate but still internal E drive. I have done this with both XP and Vista and there have been no problems. Windows 7 linked it...

Hey guys got a quick question. In xp, when i opened the recycle bin, it would display the totaly size of all the items in there, who can i enble this in windows 7?

I was doing some hard drive clean up since some of my older saved apps won't run on 7. After deleting around 4gb worth of data, I looked in the recycling bin and...it only showed about 8 things in it. When i went to empty it, i told it to show more detail and it was cleaning out everything I had...

well, when i started my computer today, my desktop was not there... odd? yeah, i tried dragging some things to it and they moved from the previous folder, but didnt show up on the desktop, i even created a new text document, with no problems. but i cannot see my desktop my recycle bin or...

Basically, I must have done something to mess up Windows Explorer. On the left I show Favorites with a Star on its left and in the right pane it shows the folders that are Favorites. It used to show those folders Under Favorites in the left pane. The next item is Desktop and it contains...