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Fixing a Corrupted Recycle Bin in Windows XP

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I was trying Norton SystemWorks 2006 and didn't like its too-smart Protected Recycle Bin. It always keep the files that I don't want to keep and I don't feel like putting all those file extensions that I don't want it to "protect" in the exclusion list.

Today I went ahead uninstalling it but my hard drive is still not clean. While defraging the hard drive, I notice that the defragmenter was still moving around fragmented files in the "Norton Protected Recycle Bin" folder in the hidden "Recycler" folder of the hard drive.

I felt like I want to completely remove everything left over by Norton.

I went ahead googling for a while and realized from this Computing.net site that we can actually "delete" a recycle bin (of course, also everything in it) in case it's corrupted.

We can simply tell Windows Explorer or any favorite file manager to show the hidden files and simply "Shift-Delete" the RECYCLER folder to completely delete it. In this way, the recycler folder will not be put in the recycle bin, which is a prohibited and illegal operation in Windows.

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