Recycle Bin

[mcjagger1]

I am so pissed off. I check my recycle bin and how much is in it and it says 18 items, around 1.3 gigs of space.

Then, I try to right click or go into it and hit "Empty recycle bin"
There are no visible files in the recycle bin either. Everything is white

Error: cannot delete file:

Yes. there is no file name after it, and there's 18 files in my recycle bin that are invisible to me. What the f*** someone help me please!

 

[Atomic Rooster]

Try booting into safe mode and deleting the files.

 

[mcjagger1]

Didn't work still nothing and the lame error.

 

[Atomic Rooster]

Try this:
Right-click the recycle bin.
Click 'Properties'.
Make sure 'Use one setting for all drives:' is selected.
Check the box 'Do not move files to the Recycle Bin'.
Click 'OK'.
That will completely disable the recycle bin.
Reboot, then re-enable the recycle bin.

 

[mcjagger1]

Damnit. I did as you said, but it still has 18 items in it.

And I tried to restore all the items as well. It seems that the items in it are invisible but still take up 2 gigs (yeah I used disk cleanup to check how much is in it).

Edit: And yes, I'm not stupid. The disk cleanup says 2 gigs in the recycle bin, so I checkmark and hit OK. It completely skips over the recycle bin when it does the cleanup despite the 2 gigs inside. WTF!

 

[Atomic Rooster]

Hmm. . .

Give CCleaner a shot. It should clear up the registry and delete any files in the recycle bin.

 

[Celegorm]

Doesn't the standard disk-cleaning utility in windows empty the recycle bin?

 

[Atomic Rooster]

Edit: And yes, I'm not stupid. The disk cleanup says 2 gigs in the recycle bin, so I checkmark and hit OK. It completely skips over the recycle bin when it does the cleanup despite the 2 gigs inside. WTF!

It doesn't look like it celegorm.

 

[Celegorm]

It doesn't look like it celegorm.

Ah my bad, I didn't see his edit.

 

[mcjagger1]

Mk.. so I installed it and ran it, and it hit Run Cleaner. It said that the stuff in the recycle bin was deleted, but I go to My Computer and all that and it is still the same amount of free space.