withbout a doubt, most of you have encountered this problem from time to time.
for those of you that have no idea wot this is about, let me fill you.

somehow, a folder called WINDOWS appears in your recycle bin. The recycle bin icon shows its full yet when u open the recycle bin nothing is there. You cant restore the item or delete it

I know there a few fixes. like make a new file( e.g. text file) and send it to the recycle bin or terminate the explorer.exe process, start it again and empty the bin.

what i want to know is, is there a permanent fix for this?!!

I never heard of this, but can this be anything like a trojan/virus? Because I don't see why a windows folder would appear in there.. also if your system still is working good with the "windows" folder in the trash.. then I don't think there's anything in it.. I would delete it if it's empty and useless..

Try doing a virus scan, adaware scan as well..

this is no virus/trojan, nor is it ad ware or spyware from what i know but i might be wrong.
i have only seen this problem in Windows XP and Windows 2000
You cant delete the folder. It says "Access is denied to a certain file"

simply cut windows folder from recycle bin and paste it somwher else.. not in default drive..... and scan it for virus / trojan.... also check whether ur windows work fine with it being in recycle bin.. ??

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Originally posted by Reaper66613
You cant delete the folder. It says "Access is denied to a certain file"

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Originally posted by Reaper66613

somehow, a folder called WINDOWS appears in your recycle bin. The recycle bin icon shows its full yet when u open the recycle bin nothing is there. You cant restore the item or delete it

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Originally posted by Reaper66613
somehow, a folder called WINDOWS appears in your recycle bin.

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Originally posted by Reaper66613
nothing shows up in the recycle bin

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lol oops . basically, nothing is in your recycle bin even when hidden files are shown and it cant be deleted when you choose Empty Recycle Bin option. its not spposed to be in there

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Originally posted by Reaper66613
lol oops . basically, nothing is in your recycle bin even when hidden files are shown and it cant be deleted when you choose Empty Recycle Bin option. its not spposed to be in there

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the problem is that it shows my recycle bin as full, even though theres nothing in it!.
you cant empty the recycle bin because access to a file is denied

Erm, are you using iconpackager or something? Try going into display properties and changing the Recycle Bin Empty icon

nope im not using anything like that. there is a file in there but you cant see it
even changin the icon doesnt make a difference

whats the icon set to? the default recycle bin empty icon?

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Originally posted by Reaper66613

the problem is that it shows my recycle bin as full, even though theres nothing in it!.
you cant empty the recycle bin because access to a file is denied

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i get this all the time i just open it close it and it's gone so far there is no perermane tbug fix for this

It should be fixed although it's not the seripous i can think of some more like folder views randomly chnaging

Googling, i came across this link:

http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com/forum/showth...php?threadid=21595

Might help you

yeh i know the solutions to it i just wanted to know if theirs a permanent fix and absorbation has answered that