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BronxCats

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September 8th, 2006 15:00

Recycle Bin Empties Automatically

When I delete something, the window pops up, do you want to send to recycle bin? I say yes and when I look at recycle bin, it is there. After turning off computer and then turning it back on, the files are no longer in the recycle bin.
I used msconfig and removed all norton stuff to make sure it was not causing it, which it turns out, it is not.
I do not have Norton running my recycle bin. I have 10% space allocated.
 
I have SP2.
 
 

Message Edited by BronxCats on 09-08-200612:03 PM

RoHe

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September 11th, 2006 19:00

Sure it's worth all this effort? Didn't sfc give you the option to skip any dll that's newer on the hard drive than on the CD?

You could always create a slip-streamed CD with XP from your original CD plus SP2 from a download. There are instructions to do that at various sites around the web. It takes a bit of time, but once you burn the CD, you'll have it if future problems arise.

Ron

BronxCats

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September 19th, 2006 14:00

Okay
I found my problem with the recycle bin. I have a software called Webroot Window Washer and I was not aware that the defaults had the empty receycle bin box checked.  I was setting it up for my notebook and noticed that it was checked. I unchecked it and now everything stays in my recyce bin.
We have a tendancy to load lots of software to clean and protect our computers and sometimes do not realize that they are deleting something we want. This taught me to check my options and settings more carefully in the future.
If anyone out there is still losing their recycle bin files, I would suggest that you check software that you  run automatically to clean your computer every day to see if it empties out your recycle bin.
 
Thanks you everyone who tried to help me.

RoHe

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September 19th, 2006 15:00

Doh! Good catch. Glad you figured it out and let the rest of know what to look out for...

Ron

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April 3rd, 2007 04:00

I had a similar problem on my 3 month old D820 laptop, when opening the recycle bin I can see the files for a short while, but after 3 seconds or so, all files disappear.
When selecting Empty Recycle bin, WinXP still is asking me if I want to delete x files, so these files are still somewhere.
I also had a webroot program installed, but only webroot spy sweeper.
De-installed all of webroots spy sweeper and problem still exists.
Kept trying and found another solution.
 
Solution on my LapTop: I had a drive substitute active to my d: drive. For example
 
Subst T: D:\

Aperently WinXP does not handle this very well. Two drive letters D: and T: to 1 recycle folder.
How to fix this, open and CMD.exe and remove the subst for this drive
 
Subst T: /D
 
To see what drives substs you have active, open a CMD.exe and type in
 
Subst
 
Note : If you have a substitute active to a real folder under D: the WinXP recycler behaves very well
 
Subst T: D:\temp

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