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Old 02-21-2005, 07:24 AM   #1 (permalink)
 
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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?
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Old 02-21-2005, 09:30 AM   #2 (permalink)
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possibly a virus or windows is corrupt.
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Try restoring it, or if you're lucky enough to have something like Norton Ghost try that. Otherwise, you might just need to format :|
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Old 02-21-2005, 05:07 PM   #4 (permalink)
 
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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
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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
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Old 02-23-2005, 02:36 PM   #6 (permalink)
 
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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.
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Old 02-23-2005, 10:59 PM   #7 (permalink)
 
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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.
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Next time this happens to anyone, try this:

Repair Recycle Bin
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Old 02-27-2005, 08:43 PM   #9 (permalink)
 
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dare i try it?

i've NEVER touched my computer's registry, i dunno if i should...
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Yes, you should try...back it up first if you want...
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