My Recycle Bin became corrupted when I deleted NORTON SYSTEMWORKS and ran a
REGISTRY CLEANER file from ADOBE regarding FLASH PLAYER,
Ihe RB ICON was there but you couldn't OPEN the bin by either right-clicking
or double-clicking. The folder had FILES but you could not access them. I
could delete files through CC cleaner.
NORTON, SONY even this USER BASE seemed to have no answers.
Finally, a friend suggested I delete the RECYCLER folder suggesting that XP
will create a new one upon reboot. Finally, I found another posting that
suggested the same thing.
When I tried delete it, I kept getting an access error-disk full error
(you've seen it before). A program on my computer entitled UNLOCK finally
helped me delete it.
I shut the computer off for 30 seconds and started it again to find a new
Recycle Bin. I had a "smaller" problem in that when I deleted files, the
FULL Bin Icon was not showing. You can correct that by doing the
right-click-on-desktop properties and refreshing the ICONS.
It's been hell but feels great to have this back.
NORM