Why is there more than one "RECYCLER" folder on my machine, and why don't they all empty when I empty the Recycle Bin?

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Hi Leo, just like Darren posted his comments, I am also facing the same problem, recently I saw a hidden recycler folder in my C drive and also in my removeable disk (Pen drive). Also I checked in my friend's computer there is no such folder found. I tried to delete the folder it pop's me a message that some programs of my computer will not work. But within some seconds it again get created. I have no idea about folder within computer but there was no such file use to find in Pen drives which I found recently. Please help.

A quick way to empty the recycler is to open a cmd prompt and type

rd /s \Recycler

Windows will re-create the folder next time it is needed. This works for XP, at least. Can't vouch for other Windows versions.

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