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RECYCLE BIN

Started by TARGET66 , May 06 2005 09:44 PM

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TARGET66

Posted 06 May 2005 - 09:44 PM

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New member, hope I'm doing this right. I must empty the recycle bin. Instructions (Start-Programs-accessories-system tools) doesn't seem to work. Unable to defragment also. Thanks

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don77

Posted 06 May 2005 - 10:14 PM

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Hi TARGET66 and welcome to geeks to go,
Locate the Recycle bin on your desktop, right click on it and choose Empty recycle bin,

If you haven't in a while or never have you would probably be best off to reboot to safe mode (start tapping the F8 key as your computer is restarting ) choose option 3 for safe mode, once in safe mode, Click Start > Programs >Accessories>System Tools>Maintenance Wizard, it will run through disk clean up>scandisk and then finally Disk Defragmenter,
It may take a while,, also before you reboot back to normal mode empty your recycle bin again