Cant empty my recycle bin

Question

im trying to clean out my recycle bin. believe it or not it said i have 594 items in there. (alot of crappy pictures i took) so i chose to empty recycle bin, but it did nothing, even when i tried one at a time, i hit delete but it doesnt delete it. its a dell laptop (vista) i just got in january, ive never cleaned it out before, so i dont know if im doing something wrong? any ideas?

Answer 1

You're doing the right thing.Restart your computer and try it again,sometimes it will just hang up if you have that many items in it.If it doesn't work, email me,I have something to fix it but I have no link to it to give to you.

Answer 2

Having a search on the internet and find the following options that might solve your problem.

1. Try downloading and using Regcleaner4.3. Find it here: http://www.worldstart.com/weekly-downloa...

2. Boot to raw dos and delete the files this way. You can either delete the individual files or the entire recycle bin. It will be recreated (empty) on the next normal boot.

To make things easy, go to Start, Run, msconfig. Click on the Advanced button. Place a checkmark in the box for "Enable Startup Menu". When you restart/reboot, you will have the menu, choose Command prompt only.

When you get the C:\> prompt, type in;

deltree c:\recycled\*.* (OR)

deltree c:\recycled\filename.ext (OR)

deltree c:\recycled (deletes the entire directory).

To stop the startup menu, use msconfig to reverse the steps above.

If deltree doesn't respond, at the C:\> prompt, before using the deltree command, type in;

cd windows\command

and then use the above.

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+++++++++++++   above 2 options are from the source

http://www.computing.net/answers/windows...

There are still others options from this source, you can have a look on it.

Or  you can download  CCLEANER from website, & run it. It will delete all your temp intermet files, cookies ..... PLUS   EMPTY YOUR RECYCLE BIN.

Answer 3

Do you have Norton AV in there? Sometimes based on the configuration, files won't be deleted by Norton AV. Also try emptying the recycle bin in safe mode. If you get an error message that the files are in use try this: http://www.download.com/Unlocker/3000-22...