still get a message "Recycle Bin on C:\ is corrupted. Do you want to empty the Recycle Bin for this drive?" Dialogue box appears saying Deleting 4 items (91.3MB) When actually there are no files appearing in the Recycle Bin. Under the Heading it says "$Recycle.Bin (C:\$Recycle.Bin) Discovered 0 items (0 bytes).... and the bar showing per cent of completion begins and 1/3 of the way to finiishing another Dialogue box appears that says "the action cannot be completed because the file is open in another program" which there are no other programs running and the next line says "Close the file and try again". There are no files in use to close but the file that is shown in the dailogue box is a Quickbooks file which is a file that resembles no Quickbooks file I have ever seen.

hey brink i deleted the recycle bin and thought that i can bring it back but the recycle bin option is already checked in desktop properties and i cannot get it back| please help!

brink, this worked great for me. thanks for the help

Hi you all

Here's another nice trick to create the Recycle Bin in a folder of your choice.

First create a new folder... ( Give it a name of your choice )
then add the following string after the given folder name :

.{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

For example : MyBin.{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

Note that there's a period (dot or full stop) between MyBin and {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

When you click this folder ( MyBin ), the Recycle Bin will open.
It also gives you a lot of options in the right click menu which you normally don't have for the Recycle Bin.

Sweet

(You can create as many Recycle Bins at any location of your choice with this operation)