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Comment from Shawn on 2009-12-21

2009-12-21T11:40:17Z

to answer to some of the situations you guys are having (guinea3 and Sreekumar). The fact that there is a recycle folder hidden inside the root of your drives is completely normal depending on how your recycling bin is set to react on those specific drives. Also means it is normal that it keeps coming back every time it needs to. Basically dont even bother with that hidden folder the only time it could bother is if you end up with a recycling worm witch i think is what Sreekumar ended up with. If so you wont be able to access any of your drives even after a virus scan its also spreads to external drives if you are having this problem just email me [email address removed] and il give you the steps to get rid of it. Hope this helps.

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Comment from Thomas on 2009-08-24

2009-08-24T16:13:38Z

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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Comment from Sreekumar on 2009-05-12

2009-05-13T03:40:31Z

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.

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Comment from Darren on 2009-05-02

2009-05-03T04:51:44Z

I have check my friend's computer, but they have no recycler folder. Only mine got, and it just appear recently. This was cause my computer become much slower than before. So, how to delete the folder? In my thought, this should be a trojan or something..
Thanks a lot

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Comment from guinea3 on 2009-04-10

2009-04-11T01:00:37Z

Something is still not quite clear. On my single-drive XP, "RECYCLER" and "Recycled" are present, TRUE. In my case, the "RECYCLER" has 3 folders with a Trash Bin Icon. If I right-click "Recycled", and look at the properties, it reads 85 bytes, 2 files, 0 folders. However, if I open "Recycled" or any of the 3 folders in "RECYCLER", the contents LOOK identical -- 308 objects, 76.4 MB. And now it gets really complicated...
If I right-click on the Desktop Icon, I have one setting for all Drives, and 970 MB reserved space. If I look look at the properties of each of the 3 folders in "RECYCLER", I get sizes of 885 (no typo) bytes, 323 MB, and 392 MB. The 323 + 392 is the same size as observed when right-clicking/properties of "RECYCLER".
I am the only user on the system. One of the folders in "RECYCLER" is for the Administrator, and one is for me. I don't know who the 3rd (smallest) one is for. I never use the Administrator account... I am the only one creating deletions on the OS.

So I guess my questions are... (1)Why are there 2 recycle bin folders with size approx 1/2 the total? (2)Why is the size of "RECYCLER" only 716 MB instead of 970 MB? (3)Why do I see the same files in ANY of the folders?

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Comment from Suresh on 2009-03-04

2009-03-04T09:53:03Z

iam using one folder in f: drive accidently my folder moved to recycler folder. how can i catch my folder

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Comment from Mars on 2009-02-24

2009-02-24T14:34:18Z

My anti-virus program disabled my recycler on two of my drives and I am wondering how to repair this. I am not able to access the drives by double clicking on them. I must right click and choose "explore" to view the contents. Pleae tell me how I can correct this problem and is it a serious issue to be concerned about.

Thanks,
Mars

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Comment from Rodney Howard on 2008-04-29

2008-04-30T02:06:24Z

When I deleted a folder from Program Files directory, it goes to my recycle bin, but I cannot empty the bin. It just remains there. I cannot restore it or move it either. Even worse, when I delete another file, it goes to the recycle bin but when I do a 'empty recycle bin' neither on disappears. I can only empty the second file by right clicking asnd deleting inside of the recycle bin. I am on Vista.

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Comment from pramod on 2008-03-14

2008-03-14T07:19:38Z

recycler folder is automatically created in all drives in my computer. that folder was not deleted. that folder is empty.Tell me how to delete that folder

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Comment from John Chamberlain on 2007-10-05

2007-10-05T17:56:03Z

Answering my own question - if you use a removable drive on several machines you get one folder per user per machine. You have to delete them manually, or plug the drive back into each PC and empty the Recycle folder on each one.

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Comment from Simon on 2007-10-03

2007-10-03T15:22:58Z

LeRoy: NProtect = Norton Protected Recycle Bin. Empty it from within Norton.

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Comment from LeRoy Laycock on 2007-09-29

2007-09-29T15:33:01Z

I have a related?, different?, problem. I have a C:\Recycler\NProtect folder with 1.85 GB [42,114 Files] that I cannot delete. Any idea on how to get rid of???

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Comment from John Chamberlain on 2007-09-29

2007-09-29T09:20:00Z

Thanks, Leo - answered something that always puzzled me, and as usual, very clearly explained. Now - can you explain what happens with removable drives? They appear to have a RECYCLER folder that has content and one sub-folder per active user, but when you open the folder, it's empty!

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