recycle bin

Question

for some stange reason when i went to clear out my recycle bin it was completely empty. I have deleted alot of programs but none of them show up in the recycle bin. Has this happened to anyone Thanks for your help

ky331 · Answer

perhaps you ran 'Disk Cleanup'... or some analogous tool... that empties the recycle bin?

Mary G · Answer

Or you have it set to delete items immediately? Right click on it, choose Properties to check.

mike02 · Answer

no. everthing is fine. in fact i just deleted some files the other day and they don't appear in the recycle bin it's completely blank   any suggestions?   thanks for your help

joe53 · Answer

Hi: This MS article might help: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;173416

David Goldfarb · Answer

Did you get this fixed? I know that SOME files are in the 'empty-appearing' recycle bin because when I hit 'empty recycle bin' I get 'are you sure you want to delete these 65 files?' So they are there, but hidden. 'viewing' hidden files doesn't help, changing properties does not help, no MS help file on recycle bins has been helpful, etc. This seems to be a common problem, with no suggested solution. Thanks... DG

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