Recycle Bin slow to empty

Guys thank you for your support. Yeah my 1st 80MB HDD for XT cost US$500. Those were the old days, now notebooks ship with 1TR HDD. Please scratch your head and think of some way to troubleshoot this. I had a look at the boot items in msconfg and this is no win3.1 the list is endless.

I think windows tries to "discover" and calculate what it is deleting first. Highly nested folders will take longer to delete, the longer the path to the file, the longer it may take. Couple of suggestions:

1) Deleting through the Command prompt will probably be faster.

2) Deleting via the Libraries view is likely to be slower than via the Explorer view.

3) Keep the filepath short.

richc46 said:

We can figure out the update if you know about when the problem began.

Hi Rich;

Here are the updates after which the problem started.

Security Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB978601)
Security Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB979309)
Security Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB979482)
Security Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB981332)
Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool x64 - June 2010 (KB890830)
Security Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB978542)
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Security Update for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems (KB979916)
Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB976422)
Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB978637)
Security Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB980232)
Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB975496)
Security Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB975560)
Security Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB979683)
Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB976662)
Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB980408)
Security Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB980218)
Security Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB979559)
Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB976264)
Security Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB971468)
Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB981793)
Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 8 for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB982381)

Let's see if we can figure out which update is causing the problem.