Comments on: Empty recycle bin by simply clicking a desktop shortcut or through command prompt

By: Chetan Oza

Chetan Oza — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:52:17 +0000

When I click on recycle bin for empty, computer ask me ‘are you sure you want to delete’? then I done, yes. But it doesn’t work as like empty recycle bin, I mean, I can see the recycle bin is not empty. Please help me, what do I do?

By: Jafo

Jafo — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:40:34 +0000

I was looking for a way of programming one of the special media buttons on my Logitech keyboard to empty the recycle bin. This works great! I installed the file and then programmed ‘Email’ button to launch a program. Pointed it to the newly installed file and blammo, I can empty the recycle bin by pushing the email button on my keyboard. Neato!

By: jonas

jonas — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:47:53 +0000

Recycle empty logic solution

Windows 7 make this possible;
click’n shake the recycle bin and it empties

(ask before deleting?… oh come on, when was the last time you click’n shook any icon)

By: Crash

Crash — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:56:36 +0000

I noticed another tool that will do this, bin.exe in cmdutils.zip @ http://www.maddogsw.com
> bin /?
bin /empty [/force] [/quiet] [drive:]
Empties the recycle bin for specified drive
/force: do not ask for confirmation, just empty the bin
/quiet: do not display progress information
bin /size [drive:]
Display the space used by the recycled bin on specified drive

What’s interesting about this, When you have multiple harddrives: you can empty a specific drives bin, and not the others.

ie: bin /empty /force D:
only empty recycle bin for drive D: and not the whole recycle bin.

By: Bob Bergman

Bob Bergman — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:48:13 +0000

How can one spefify which recycle bin when there are multiple hard drives?

I would like to put it in my backup BAT to empty before backup to save time.

By: Lil ndn

Lil ndn — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:45:16 +0000

Great tip; I plan to use it on some elderly family members laptops…I just let CCleaner do it for me, lazy I reckon.
FTW (Freedom Thru Wisdom)

By: Lil ndn

Lil ndn — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:42:09 +0000

Very good tip, plan to put on a vouple of aging family members laptops for myself I jusr let CCleaner so it for me…lazy I reckon.
FTW, freedom thru wisdom!

By: Ajay Pathak

Ajay Pathak — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:55:09 +0000

nice tip

By: Keith Dsouza

Keith Dsouza — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:26:09 +0000

Nice tip, though I use Ccleaner to do all the dirty stuff for me lol

By: Link Bytes #11

Link Bytes #11 — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:28:08 +0000

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