MickD

Thank you! Nice to have my correct recycle bin back :) Mick

Thank you. Attached is screen shot of result I get from trying on drive c: using administrator account... rd /s /q <drive letter>:\$Recycle.bin I hi-lited the relevant part in yellow :) MickD

CCleaner always cleans 4.5 Gb from the recycle bin even when it is empty. I tried the suggestion in this topic... Right-click on the "Command Prompt" entry > click "Run as Administrator" Type and enter: rd /s /q C:\$Recycle.bin I get this response Remove-Item: A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument '/q'. So, how do I fix this situation, which you say is probably a corrupt recycle bin? Thank you, MickD