Vista's Recycle Bin

I recently used SpaceSniffer and ran a scan of my dad's laptop's c: partition which runs Vista Home Basic SP2 and it displayed that there was 6.0GB of files in the recycle bin even though the recycle bin was empty? I did not take a screenshot though. SpaceSniffer could not remove the files at all which got me concerned as I needed the space then I used CCleaner Free v4.14.4867 and checked the empty recycle bin and clicked on the Analyse button then the Run Cleaner button and it removed the 6.0GB which I have now much more hdd space avaiable...

What on earth happened there? I have emptied the recycle bin many times since those files have been added to the recycle bin.I did not risk restoring those files since I couldn't tell what they were?

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Anyone?

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Hey maxdamage, it seems to me that your Recycle Bin just failed to refresh after the last time it was emptied. Has it worked in the normal manner since the Ccleaner cleaning ? If so I would just chalk it up to being one of those fluke incidents that happens every now and then in Windows, especially Vista. My Vista has told me Firefox was not installed at the same time I was using Firefox. Unless it happens again, I wouldn't worry too much about it.

 

Those files had been deleted years ago but they were "stuck" in the recycle bin and like I said I have emptied the recycle bin many times since then which was totally weird!!!Will just check to be sure every now and then just to be safe....Must have been some fluke incident all right!

The recycle bin appears to been working normally since the CCleaner cleaning.

 

Thanks for letting me know. Check back in if there seems to be a problem . Good luck buddy. You may also want to try this for a more thorough privacy cleaning.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/privazer.html

 

A couple of weekends ago suddenly I discovered that 1.6GB of hdd space disappeared...After trying to find what happened to it and while fixing another problem the missing space re-appeared which confused me again.:confused

After copying a number of UT2k4 maps and some other smaller stuff over to the laptop(which must total at most 500MB) more hdd space is missing. I estimate about 1.7GB of hdd space is gone and I can't seem to get it back?


There is about 300KB(can't remember atm) of bad sectors on the 160GB HDD.

 

maxdamage...

System Restore swallows hard drive space fast sometimes. Maybe that's what is causing this. I have seen it make 10 GB disappear in no time flat. I discovered this by watching HD space usage using a Rainmeter skin and then by using TreeSizeFree to see how much data was in the System Volume Information (System Restore) folder on the PC.

Literally I would look up after a day of not noticing and 10 GB would be gone. Sure enough there was a new restore point and the Sys Vol Info folder had swallowed all that space.

I settled on setting System Restore to use 5 GB of space max. Now it doesn't bother me. Before it was using up to like 15 GB at its max I think. I still get as many as 30 restore points if I'm not making a ton of changes to the system.

BTW, System Restore disk usage does go down on its own, too. In the exact same way, restore points disappear after 90 days. Again, I have gotten 10 GB of space back in the twinkling of an eye basically just like it was swallowed.

 

I don't have that problem since I last ran CCleaner to remove the 6GB of files specifically.Is it safe to delete the following folder: C:\SWSetup to free up some much needed space? It contains all the hardeware drivers,software and bloatware\trialware installers for Vista Home Basic on my dad's HP\Compaq laptop.I have deleted some installers but left most of them as I am being very careful.

Vista Home Basic had to be re-installed 6 months after my dad bought the laptop and the c: partition had been re-formatted and that folder was created during the installation of the OS.

Thanks.

 

I might keep most of the stuff but I am thinking of just deleting the MS Works and Office 2007 trial installers as that alone will free up about 700MB of hdd space.I did delete the Nortons Internet Suite installer and some other bloatware stuff.

I have only updated the nvidia drivers to a newer but never really updated them since I did back then.I might zip the remaining files to save a tiny bit of space and see what that does....?

Thanks.