Recycle Bin Won't Show Confirmation Dialog...

[Daddyman]

The Recycle Bin in my copy of Windows 7 x64 won't show the confirmation dialog, even though "Display delete confirmation dialog" is checked. Instead, my files are being permanently deleted. How can I restore the confirmation dialog?

The problem began after I ran this command:

rd /s <drive_letter:>\$Recycle.bin

on all my drives to fix a problem where the Recycle Bin was very slow to empty.

 

[Brink]

Hello Daddyman,

You might see if using step 5 in OPTION THREE of the tutorial below will force the Recycle Bin delete confirmation to always be enabled.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/60835-recycle-bin-delete-confirmation-turn-off.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[Daddyman]

Thanks for your help.

Even with the group policy enabled...I still get no confirmation dialog! (It seems that the group policy only affects the ability of users to make a change.)

Perhaps this will help you solve my problem.

EDIT: I just now tried to delete and recreate the Recycle Bin, which also made no difference.

[To delete and re-create: In Safe Mode with Command Prompt I issued -

attrib -s -h C:\$Recycle.Bin
del C:\$Recycle.Bin

and re-started normally.]

 

[Brink]

As a test, does it do this with other or new user accounts on the PC?

 

[Daddyman]

You sir are a genius.

I noticed that I get the confirmation dialog with some user accounts, but not with other user accounts. Light bulb!

The user accounts that don't see the confirmation dialog were moved off the C: drive onto a separate partition. On this separate partition there is no Recycle Bin. In other words, there is no $RECYCLE.BIN folder.

To put a finer point to it: These user accounts do have a Recycle Bin icon on the desktop, but there is no $RECYCLE.BIN folder in the partition.

So my real problem is: How do I re-create the Recycle Bin on this partition?

EDIT: This one was easy: Restart in Safe Mode, un-hide hidden files, delete the $RECYCLE.BIN folder from each partition, re-hide hidden files and re-start Windows normally. Windows recreated perfectly good Recycle Bins on all partitions.

 

[Brink]

I'm happy hear to hear that you got it sorted out. Thank you for posting back with your results.