so when I clean my recycle bin it said it cleaned 200mb of space even tho my bin is empty, I’ve tried the cmd fix but it didn’t work, what should I do?
Do you have CCleaner Pro?
If so then is there more than one user on your machine?
The bin being cleaned (or that is corrupted) may not be your bin but may be the bin on another user account.
Similarly, different drives can have different bins on them, do you have multiple drives attached?
I don’t think theres any other users in my pc, I have two drives but I only clean the C drive, now that I think abt it I think I deleted a 200mb file from my D drive recently so that might be it. But for clarification the trash bin corruption is only a visual bug right? files deleted from the trash bin is still permanently gone from my pc
To confirm the “corrupted bin” issue is a very long standing bug in Windows itself.
A register/list in Windows that should be cleared whenever the bin is emptied sometimes gets ‘sticky’, when it happens that register doesn’t get cleared like it should be, and just grows longer and longer.
The files have gone from the bin, but that register/list hasn’t been updated.
Many parts of Windows never use that register, and so things look normal and you wouldn’t know the bug had struck you, unless/until you start digging a bit deeper with tools like CCleaner that do look at that particular register.
I think that’s one reason Microsoft have never got round to fixing the bug - it doesn’t really affect anything, it only shows up in a few ‘advanced’ tools/apps, and most users simply aren’t aware of it.
Plus of course it’s very easy to fix, just delete the problem bin and Windows will make a good one.
It depends what you mean by that, how you deleted the files from the bin, and what kind of drive it is.
If it’s a spinning disc HDD, and if you didn’t specify a secure delete, then some of the files may still be recoverable using file recovery software.
If it’s an SSD then there is less chance of recovery being possible.
If you specified a Secure Delete in the CCleaner options then the files removed from the bin should have been securely deleted and so not recoverable.
what I meant by if this issue is just a visual bug or not, even if the size of the corrupted bin keeps increasing it will not affect my pc in any meaningful way right? like it won’t effect my disk space since it’s already gone from my recycle bin, the only issue is with the registry, So as long as I don’t clean my recycle bin from ccleaner and just do it manually I won’t have any problems?
Correct, it’s just an internal Windows ‘list’ that goes wrong now and again but doesn’t really affect your storage - except for a few KB as the list itself grows longer.