Recycle bin malfunctioning

[fourvector]

I've been searching around trying to find some solution for this...

I've installed Windows 7 on a newly built PC and noticed that when I send files to the Recycle Bin, it will change to the 'Full' icon and can be emptied, but when I open its window up, the contents are not displayed, and they cannot be restored to their original location.

The next thing I noticed was that when I try deleting and restoring files while the Recycle Bin is open it works perfectly - Deleted files will show up in the Recycle Bin and they can be restored. It's only after I close and reopen the Recycle Bin that the apparent corruption occurs.

I have tried deleting the $recycle.bin folders from elevated command prompt but it doesn't work.

Perhaps there's something I've installed (Spybot, AVG etc) which is mucking it up.

Any ideas?

 

[Lomai]

Hi

Welcome to Seven Forums
Have a look at this and see if it resolves your issue

regards

 

[fourvector]

Hi, thanks for your reply. As I said before, I already tried deleting the $recycle.bin folders to no avail. Any other ideas?

 

[wilywombat]

Do you have any encrytion / secure shredding programs loaded? Some of these operate on the waste bin

 

[Lomai]

Have a look at this thread from MS Forum - Can't see deleted files in Windows 7

Regards

 

[Lomai]

Do you have any encrytion / secure shredding programs loaded? Some of these operate on the waste bin

I'm also thinking AVG :huh:

 

[fourvector]

Ok, that last link was very helpful. Turns out it was indeed caused by a Codemeter USB dongle I had plugged in. Reconfiguring it to act as a removable disk instead of a fixed disk solved the problem (although why it was set up as a fixed disc by default is beyond me)

Thanks a lot for your help

 

[Lomai]

Glad things worked out and for keeping us posted.

Regards