I moved files into my recycle bin to be deleted. The icon shows this by the waste basket (recycle bin icon) looking full. When I open the recycle bin there is nothing present. My thinking is that the recycle bin has become corrupted. Could someone tell me how to fix this problem. Anyones advice would be gratefully appreciated. Thank you, Peter

http://home.earthlink.net/~leetutor/FixWin/DeskTask/recycle.htm "Start the computer with the Windows boot disk At the command prompt, type the following lines, pressing ENTER after each line: attrib -r -s -h c:\recycled deltree c:\recycled Restart the computer. This re-creates the Recycle Bin."

if the above doesn't help;; Fix Recycle Bin icon Here is the registry patch which will restore the functionality of the Bin. Make the following, after - - start and before - - end into a file by cut/paste to NotePad. Don't let lines wrap around, and make sure there is a blank line at the end. Save as "Patch.reg" then d-click on this file to enter it into the registry. - - start REGEDIT4 [HKEY CLASSES ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}] @="Recycle Bin" [HKEY CLASSES ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\InProcSer ver32] @="shell32.dll" "ThreadingModel"="Apartment" [HKEY CLASSES ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\DefaultIc on] @="C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM\\shell32.dll,32" "Empty"="C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM\\shell32.dll,31" "Full"="C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM\\shell32.dll,32" [HKEY CLASSES ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ShellFold er] "Attributes"=hex:40,01,00,20 [HKEY CLASSES ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\shellex] [HKEY CLASSES ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\shellex\C ontextMenuHandlers] [HKEY CLASSES ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\shellex\C ontextMenuHandlers\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}] @="" [HKEY CLASSES ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\shellex\P ropertySheetHandlers] [HKEY CLASSES ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\shellex\P ropertySheetHandlers\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}] @="" [HKEY CLASSES ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\shellex\P ropertySheetHandlers\{4d3744c0-7ec1-11d0-b599-10005a11ba95}] - - end Then make the following two lines into a file - say C:\recycled.txt [.ShellClassInfo] CLSID={645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} After that, go to a DOS prompt and give CD \RECYCLED DIR /A and make sure that a file Desktop.ini is present. If not give COPY C:\Recycled.txt Desktop.ini ATTRIB +H +R +S Desktop.ini The file is needed for Explorer view to display its content in a 'bin' manner