If you don't want to use the Recycle Bin and want to be able to remove
Recycler folder from the drive (remember that no files can be un-deleted
easily once the Recycle Bin is disabled on the drive) follow these simple
instructions: Right click on the Recycle Bin Icon on the desktop. Click
Properties. Click on the Global tab. Click the radio button for "Configure
drives independently and then click Apply. Click the tab at the top of the
window for the drive you want to disable the recycler on. Drag the slide to
the left as far as it will go (to 0%) and then click Apply. Next click the
checkbox on Do not move files...... and click OK. (Some may say that you
don't have to do the slider thing first but I have run into issues in not
being able to later delete the "file" associated with the current date in
the Recycler folder unless I do this first.)
Go into Windows explorer and click on the root folder. Click on the
Recycler folder on the right pane and press the Delete key. It should be
gone. If it fails to delete, you may have to click on Recycler in the left
pane and delete each folder separately in the right pane, then delete the
Recycler folder, but I have only had to do this once or twice for some
drives.
Let us know if this helps.
"Eugen Austermann" <aussie@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:475d183a$0$13113$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net...
> On my partition D I found two hidden folder:
>
> "Recycler" and "recycled"
>
> Pay attention to the two different spellings.
>
> What are the differences ?
>
> Can I delete both when I don't use "Recycle Bin" for this partition but
> delete all files directly?
>
> Or must at least one (which?) exist even as an empty hidden folder ?
>
> Eugen
>
