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Fixed: What is the command line way of sending files to the recycle bin? #answer #solution #development

What is the command line way of sending files to the recycle bin?

Is there a command line program that can send files to the recycle bin? This is on XP and Vista.

Answer [by Mark]: What is the command line way of sending files to the recycle bin?

CmdUtils has a utility called Recycle that does exactly that.

More info here:

To use the recycle command download the CmdUtils zip file and unzip the…

How to: Windows 7: How to display the total size of Recycle Bin #it #computers #fix

Windows 7: How to display the total size of Recycle Bin

On Windows XP, the total size of Recycle Bin could be seen easily, but I can’t see it on Windows 7. Why did Microsoft hide/remove this feature? Am I missing something?

REMARK 1: I don’t need to see the maximum size that Recyle Bin can contain.

REMARK 2:Once you have several files selected in the Recycle Bin, you get a “See more details”…

Answer: Disable Shift+Delete #computers #answer #dev

Disable Shift+Delete

How can I disable Shift+Delete so that even if the key combination is used the files always get to the Recycle Bin?

Answer [by Sam]: Disable Shift+Delete

Unfortunately there isn’t really a way to do this. You can disable it in particular applications, for example there is a registry hack to prevent it in Outlook, however I do not know of any for Windows Explorer.

Answer [by

How-to: How to quickly empty a very full recycle bin? #it #programming #solution

How to quickly empty a very full recycle bin?

I have deleted about half a million files from a folder, and didn’t think to press Shift in order to delete them completely straight away.

Now they’re clogging my recycle bin, and Windows claims it will take 4 hours to empty it – it claims to do about 68 files per second.

Is there some magic or an alternative method that can speed this up?

Bounty -I…

How-to: How can I get to the recycle bin without the desktop icon in windows 7? #it #solution #dev

How can I get to the recycle bin without the desktop icon in windows 7?

I hate having anything on my desktop. I usually remove all the icons from the desktop, even the recycle bin. Occasionally I need to access the recycle bin, but having to re-enable the icon just to open it, is annoying.

I was hoping I could use the windows search bar built into the start menu but typing “recycle” or “recycle…

Answer: How to open the Recycle Bin from the Windows command line? #dev #computers #programming

How to open the Recycle Bin from the Windows command line?

How do I open the Recycle Bin from the command line?

I’d be very glad if there is a built-in Windows command.

Answer [by xXPhenom22Xx]: How to open the Recycle Bin from the Windows command line?

This should help, tested on Windows 7 successfully RUN CMD CD \$Recycle.Bin

Answer [by iglvzx]: How to open the Recycle Bin from the Windows…

Fixed: Which folder is recycle bin in on Win7? How to check files there? #solution #programming #computers

Which folder is recycle bin in on Win7? How to check files there?

I was using another account before. Let me call it account A. And I deleted a lot of files to the Recycycle Bin at that time. But before I removed account A I forgot to empty the Recycle Bin.

My question is, are my files still there? I’ve searched and found that the Recycle Bin may live in $Recycle.Bin, but I can’t open files…

How-to: Clear the Recycle Bin For All Users in Windows Server 2008 R2 #dev #answer #it

Clear the Recycle Bin For All Users in Windows Server 2008 R2

What is the proper way to clear the recycle bin for all users in Windows Server 2008 R2?

Answer [by MDMarra]: Clear the Recycle Bin For All Users in Windows Server 2008 R2

As far as I can tell, these is no “official” Microsoft supported way of doing this. There are two options. One involves deleting c:\$Recycle.Bin and the other is…