Whenever I empty recycle bin, I get an error message that "Cannot remocve folder DC4: Access is denied." When the R/B is empty, it still shows the "full" icon, but the "empty recycle bin" option is grayed out. I have no idea which program this is from. I used norton unerase to try to recover the "DC4" folder and go from there, but nothing was listed. I also restored previous registries, but nothing has helped. Any ideas?

Try it in safe mode. Regards - Ray

Getting wierder. I get the same error message in safe mode. Did something delete a system folder?

Boot up to dos mode and type deltree c:\recycled That will delete the recycle bin. Windows will create an empty one during the next start. If you have more than one drive, type it again for each drive.

Thanks bear. Deltree worked great. Makes me realize how much I have forgotten about dos.

I have had this problem before, its usually because of a file that too big for the recycle bin so gets deleted right off of he disk, BUT!! Noreton proteced recycle bin keeps it in there, even tho the norton bin shows empty . I have had boot to dos, cd th the correct hard drive recycle bin then set attributes to -h so i can see the norton recycled bin then fron there i can delet the rogue file. Reboot and alll that space is recovered and no more annoying messages that the file can`t be deleted Woof

HHHHHELP I have the exact same problem!!! BUT i booted to dos and typed it in correctly but it did not work !What now!!!! This is annoying! I have seen this access denied one too mant times! Deb