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Its asks out of the blue or when you press empty?
Its possible windows has become a little confused in its tracking of deleted items.
When its having one of its empty moments setup the bin as showen in the attached shot.
Apply the changes and then set it back to how it was. You can then rest assured the bin is actually empty.
If it asks after that you could always press yes bearing in mind it wont delete the windows dir because of system file protection. However not all files in the directory are included in the protection scope.
Its a strange one just thought i would give u my rougth thoughts on this
Its possible windows has become a little confused in its tracking of deleted items.
When its having one of its empty moments setup the bin as showen in the attached shot.
Apply the changes and then set it back to how it was. You can then rest assured the bin is actually empty.
If it asks after that you could always press yes bearing in mind it wont delete the windows dir because of system file protection. However not all files in the directory are included in the protection scope.
Its a strange one just thought i would give u my rougth thoughts on this
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Originally posted by Iceman
post a screenshot of the contents of the recycle bin too.
run a virus checker asap as well
post a screenshot of the contents of the recycle bin too.
run a virus checker asap as well
Here is wat is in my recycle bin at the moment but wen I go to delete these things it says do you want to delete 3 items....there is only 2 ?????
I just said yes to it and this is wat came up......
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Originally posted by alloy25
I deleted the 2 files separately and then went out of bin.......i then right clicked and went to empty the bin but instead of saying do I want to delete windows ..now it says do I want to delete speed up ..which is one of the ones I deleted separately.??????:huh:
Wat the hell is going on??????
I deleted the 2 files separately and then went out of bin.......i then right clicked and went to empty the bin but instead of saying do I want to delete windows ..now it says do I want to delete speed up ..which is one of the ones I deleted separately.??????:huh:
Wat the hell is going on??????
:huh: My head hurts now!
Try running this reg fix to place the correct handlers for the bin and setup display and context menus.
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts/recycbin-2.reg
Im still looking into this but i have to say cant find any metion to a issue quite like this!
It may be worth booting into safe mode and seeing if you can empty the bin normally!
Have u checked for malware / trojans / viruses that may be causing problems?
Try running this reg fix to place the correct handlers for the bin and setup display and context menus.
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts/recycbin-2.reg
Im still looking into this but i have to say cant find any metion to a issue quite like this!
It may be worth booting into safe mode and seeing if you can empty the bin normally!
Have u checked for malware / trojans / viruses that may be causing problems?
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This is a coincidence.
I recently installed and then promptly uninstalled Microsoft Plus! (via the delete key) and I had the same message. I right clicked on the bin and pressed empty, and it came up with that same message.
I of course almost shat my dacks and pressed no. I then went to the bin and had a look and there wasn't even anything in there.
It must be Windows getting confused, because the Plus! directory was located in the same directory as the Windows folder. I ran a virus scan straight afterwards and it found nothing.
I recently installed and then promptly uninstalled Microsoft Plus! (via the delete key) and I had the same message. I right clicked on the bin and pressed empty, and it came up with that same message.
I of course almost shat my dacks and pressed no. I then went to the bin and had a look and there wasn't even anything in there.
It must be Windows getting confused, because the Plus! directory was located in the same directory as the Windows folder. I ran a virus scan straight afterwards and it found nothing.
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The problem has fixed itself......I did wat enyo suggested and it did not work......but then after a while it all came good again ????:huh:
Don't know why but its all good.....I like everyone else did all the searches for trojans viruses ETC.....loked in hidden files and did an extensive search of my h/drive and found absolutly nothing.....
Must be just one of those famous gliches Xp has ....
Thanks to all who tried to help...:happy:
Don't know why but its all good.....I like everyone else did all the searches for trojans viruses ETC.....loked in hidden files and did an extensive search of my h/drive and found absolutly nothing.....
Must be just one of those famous gliches Xp has ....
Thanks to all who tried to help...:happy:
