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Resolved recycle bin wants to know if i want to delete windows

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by jan roberts, 2010/01/10.

  1. 2010/01/10
    jan roberts

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    emptied my recycle bin, looked at it and it was showing something in it hit empty and it wanted to know if i wanted to delete "windows ", i opened it and it was empty.
    what is going on?

    runnign xp media center
    dell dimension 510
     
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    Jan I got the same thing yesterday and emptied the bin before I realized what I had done! Anyway nothing dramatic happened and windows is still where it should be. But like you I'd be interested to know why it happened in the first place.
     
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    jan roberts

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    im going to going to leave the post up mainly because its just weird and i dont have anything to delete as of now. lets see if anyone else has had this little glitchie.
     
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    jan roberts

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    thnks pete c
    think i will go run hjt and do i post it on malware or on this thread?
     
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    No .....

    Please read this as indicated at the head of the forum and post the logs requested in a new thread.
     
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    jan roberts

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    okay reading what i am to do. thank you
     
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  9. 2010/01/11
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    Windows in recycle bin JanRoberts

    Jan Ive been trying to reply to your post "dds..... ", but for some reason I can't.
    I responded to your original thread on this as exactly the same thing happened to me at the same time as you.
    I've been trawling through the internet and it seems this is a fairly common problem.
    I agree it's worrying when you see it, but then logically it's pretty unlikely that you can even deliberately try to bin Windows.
    I havent found any definitive answer as to why it happens, but the one I find most attractive is that your system can't categorize all the files for deletion in the bin so it just gives a generalized title e.g. Windows.
    Another suggestion is this this happens when you have tried to delete an active or open file.
    There is some discussion of this, and some suggestions at:
    http://www.techsupportforum.com/microsoft-support/windows-xp-support/185913-windows-recycle-bin.html
    For my part, I'd follow the steps you have been given in this forum, I just post this to let you know it's not, apparently as critical as it looks.
     
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    I'm not sure, what's going on in this thread and who is who.
     
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  11. 2010/01/12
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    It became a bit of a mess. I doubt Malware is involved at this point, so moving this to the XP forum for now.

    First, run chkdsk /f on the disk, that usually fixes it.

    I not, run rd /s c:\recycler from a command prompt & reboot your computer.

    Also, you really need to enter your System Details. It helps us in answering your questions!
     
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  12. 2010/01/12
    jan roberts

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    arie,i ran chkdisk it came out clean. but i didnt run chkdisk/f what is the f?
    am working on system details.
    broni,sorry for the confusion, dont know what happened.
    thanks for your replys.

    arie i have fixed system details as best i could,some things i could not find. used belarc and system ?forgot what its called.
     
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    Arie

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    Running chkdsk without any switch doesn't do anything. It just analyzes. You'll want to run with /f to repair.
     
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    jan roberts

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    all the recycle bin is fixed,arie that chkdsk /f did the trick. everyone i do thank you so much.
     
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    Please mark this thread as Resolved .....
     
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    jan roberts

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    trying to resolve

    the run chkdsk /f worked very well thank you again arie,broni and petec
    looking for post tools so i can resolve this thing and still cant find anything like that.
     
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    PeteC

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    Jan

    It's all in my last post .....
     

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  18. 2010/01/15
    jan roberts

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    oh thank you thank you i was looking at top of the replies hopefully it is now resolved. (very red-faced person)
     
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    Yes - it's fine now :)
     
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