Vista - Recycle Bin empty, icon changed correctly, and delete confirmation dialog closed

I found this was a tough (read finicky) nut to crack so thought I would post
my solution here. Credit to mr_unreliable, et al.

On Windows XP SP3, the only way I found I could get the Recycle Bin emptied,
icon changed correctly, and the delete confirmation dialog closed was to
invoke the Open verb instead of Empty Recycle &Bin. I then perform a few
SendKeys calls to navigate through the appropriate menu items, close the
dialog, and finally the Recycle Bin window.

This script is used as part of a clean up batch file. Delete confirmation
dialog is required.

Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
Set WSHShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Const CLSID = "::{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}"
Set objRecycleBin = objShell.Namespace(0).ParseName(CLSID)

objRecycleBin.InvokeVerb "Open"
WScript.Sleep(50)
WSHShell.SendKeys("%F")
WScript.Sleep(50)
WSHShell.SendKeys("B")
WScript.Sleep(50)
WSHShell.SendKeys("Y")
WScript.Sleep(50)
WSHShell.SendKeys("%{F4}")

When was the original discussion on this? I'm having trouble finding it in
Google, and I wanted to see what issues you guys had run across - I'm
working on a theory about what happens with particular verb invocations from
scripts and why. :/

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