Windows 7 – How to Fix Always Deleting Files Permanently

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I am using a laptop from my company, installed with Windows 7. I found that I cannot delete the files to Recycle Bin. The files will always deleted permanently without going to the Recycle Bin.

I am sure that the setting of the Recycle Bin is not "Remove files immediately when deleted".

Then, I checked that, deleting files work fine in other drives, but only C: does not work. Besides that, C:\$RECYCLE.BIN is missing, but D: and E: have the $RECYCLE.BIN. I think that is why there is no problem other drives to use Recycle Bin.

Please help.

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In this thread, one person "fixed" his recycle bin problem by this funny way :

Ok, what I've done (accidentally, I was working on something else) is booting the computer in safe mode and deleting something. Somehow the recycle bin repaired itself.

Just make sure first in Properties of the recycle bin that enough disk space is allocated for the C drive.

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Browse to C:\users\.
Right-click on one of the folders in this location (I chose saved games) and click properties.
Select the Location tab.
Click Move, browse to to root of the mapped drive, and click Select Folder.
When asked "move all content?" it's your decision, I prefer "No".

A $RECYCLE.BIN is created in the mapped drive and the drive is in the list shown in the properties of recyclebin.

If you move the location back to C:\users..., the mapped drive is removed from the list of drives that are covered by recycle bin. But the Recyclebin itself remains in the mapped drive. Allowing you to access deleted files from other drives, only.

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This forum thread is about a problem very similar to yours even if on Windows XP. The user found the problem to be virus-related. In particular, they found that it was related to the following registry key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoRecycleFiles

Please check that the value is set to 0, and make a scan with an antivirus, possibily in safe mode.

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