pstein

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After having disabled the option "protect my system folders) I had a look on my folders and found 4 (!) different RECYCLE BINs on my second, non-system partition D:

Have a look at the attached snapshot of my WinExplorer view and the corresponding listing with "dir /a".

Why are there so many RECYCLE BINs?

Whats the difference between the outer and the 4 inner RECYCLE BINs?

Why does one of the RECYCLE BINs has a short name while the others a longer like

S-1-5-21-1007407404-2758...........

Why do 2 of the tiny icons have a lock symbol and two not?

Can I delete them (e.g. from an externally booted ToolCD)?
Will the necessary (one and only ?) RECYCLE BIN then automatically re-created at next startup?

Peter

 
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try "wmic useraccount get name,sid" Those SID numbers are for individual users, this way Windows can stuff everyone's recycle bin in one folder. You can delete them, and I believe you can delete the whole $RECYCLE.BIN folder if you'd like, Windows has become very robust at recreating and repairing it. (do at your own risk but I do it all the time with no problems)
try "wmic useraccount get name,sid" Those SID numbers are for individual users, this way Windows can stuff everyone's recycle bin in one folder. You can delete them, and I believe you can delete the whole $RECYCLE.BIN folder if you'd like, Windows has become very robust at recreating and repairing it. (do at your own risk but I do it all the time with no problems)
 
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