[RESOLVED] Is my recycle bin empty or not?

[Dickster]

I'm in the process of deleting a lot of old stuff from my drive and using Treesize to see what the large files are. I have emptied the recycle bin and rebooted, but Treesize is finding 13 GB of files in the $Recycle.bin folder. Why are they there, and can they be deleted?

[Train]

Adjust the size of the recycle bin. 13 GB is just to darn much.
How to Change Maximum Storage Size for Recycle Bin in Windows 10
http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3...dows-10-a.html

Thanks for the reminder, this darn thing was set to 25 GB, so I set it to 1000 MB.

[Midknyte]

Are there multiple users on the system?

http://lifehacker.com/5845698/force-...er-on-a-system

[Dickster]

I ran "rd /s c:\$Recycle.Bin" and access is denied. How do I run it as administrator?

Never mind, found it.

It worked! It's now empty. Strange thing, I am the only user for the system, however it was upgraded from windows 7 so maybe the recycle bin junk was left over from before.

[Train]

It most likely was.
I just upgraded last night myself.