Windows Vista Entire Documents Folder In Recycle Bin

[Fred44]

Don't know how this happened but I deleted a coulple of files from my Documents Folder (Documents, Music, Pictures, Recently changed, etc.), and the whole Folder ended up in the Recycle Bin. I now have an exact duplication of my whole folder in the Recycle Bin. If I delete a file from the copy in the Bin, it deletes it from the Folder on my desktop. The "Empty recycle Bin" option is grayed out. How do I get rid of this duplication? It's taking up about 3 GB of my hard drive so obviously I have somehow copied all my files to the recycle bin. What do I do???
Fred

 

[kemical]

Have you tried system restore?

 

[Fred44]

Have you tried system restore?

Did system restore yesterday and it worked. Thanks.

Fred