Comments on: Vista: How to Reset the Recycle Bin

By: julie ann

julie ann — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 07:48:47 +0000

tnx guyz,,ur a lifesaver…

By: Dtreble280

Dtreble280 — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 20:58:00 +0000

Wow!! That worked! I spend all day trying to figure out how I lost 50GB of free space from my hard drive. Thank you!

By: dee

dee — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 02:53:00 +0000

thank you!! it works for me :D

By: OP8

OP8 — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 06:41:00 +0000

Which solution worked for you?

By: Mielcmin

Mielcmin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 06:08:00 +0000

thank you so much!!!!!!! :D

By: OP8

OP8 — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:39:00 +0000

Here’s one a little less intimidating. Create a new file on the desktop (say a text file), and rename it with exactly the same name as the one that won’t delete. Then delete that file. This then caused my recycle bin to freeze for a short time, and even a worrying message saying “windows had stopped working” and did I want to end it or wait for it to respond? Clicked on end, which (I think) restarted Explorer. Clicked on “Empty Recycle Bin”, and bingo!

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:37:00 +0000

You’re amazing. Thanks, now i can get mt 12.4mbs of memory back. lol.

By: chris

chris — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:28:00 +0000

hey thanks for the advice, how ever it did not solve my problem.
files that will not delet in recycle bin are still there.