Darn Recycle Bin

[Snake-Eyes]

I constantly have a full recycle bin, so say my computer. I open it and there's nothing in it. When i hit "Empty Recycle Bin" it prompts me with "Would you like to delete these 9 items?" I click yes and nothing happens. Recycle bin still looks full and i can empty it a million times and nothing will happen.

Can anyone explain this to me?

 

[SHAWN]

possibly a virus or windows is corrupt.

 

[Iron_Cross]

Try restoring it, or if you're lucky enough to have something like Norton Ghost try that. Otherwise, you might just need to format :|

 

[Vnet]

take property of any drive i-e C:, D: or ne other drive click on disk cleanup on the disk cleanup window check the recycle bin and hit ok button .. and see if it works. n it could be a virus . so gluck

 

[Snake-Eyes]

So far i've done:

Disk Clean-up
Avast AntiVirus on High
Spybot S&D
Ad-Aware SE


I'm going to run:

AntiVir XP (Luke Filewalker)
AVG

I've yet to get rid of it. I'll let you know after the last two scans

 

[Snake-Eyes]

Ok i found NOTHING.

No scanner picked it up, i tried Disk Clean-up and nothing.

All i can think of next is defrag (who knows, it may solve the problem) or reformat.

I'd rather not reformat only because i have RAID0 and i don't want to try redoing the RAID because i'll probably mess it up.

 

[emeraldice]

Yea...i know this sounds obvious, but back up....because....you never know; you may want a defective computer w/ all of your files than a good computer w/ none of your files.

 

[Osiris]

Next time this happens to anyone, try this:

Repair Recycle Bin

 

[Snake-Eyes]

dare i try it?

i've NEVER touched my computer's registry, i dunno if i should...

 

[Osiris]

Yes, you should try...back it up first if you want...