Retarded Recycle Bin
 

SO recently my recycle bin has started to take ages, and I mean AGES, to empty.

I just emptied it now; just about 50Mb or so of porn, yet it took literally 5 minutes to complete. I have no idea why it's started being so slow to empty. I've done nothing system changing or anything like that that could effect it.

I'm confused :(

Porn + computer = Virus

You done proper checks and all that?

It could have something to do with needing to defragment your hard drive. (Start->run->dfrg.msc and get working =p )

See if your hard dive isn't running in PIO-mode (should be DNA). Head to your device manager and check it. See screenshot.

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/1184/ultradma5ns.png

If it's on PIO, uninstall the two IDE-thingies and reboot. That should fix it.

The more files you have, the longer it takes. For example one 10GB file would delete much quicker than 10,000,000,000 1Byte files.
The reason?
Windows only deletes the references in the allocation tables (which stores the file name, date(s), attributes and location) not the data itself. This is why you can recover files later.
How many files did you try to delete?

Windows never will actually delete the data. When you delete something from the Recycle Bin, it removes those references you are referring to. When something gets put in the Recycle Bin, it's not much different than moving a file to a folder where the folder has no external read access.

So what happens if you get a virus? And try to delete it? Does that mean the virus can still work even though it was "deleted"?

Its porn. Chances are its more high-res pictures or videos than lots of smaller files. :p

Chances are that he's extremely underexaggerating when he's telling us "50Mb or so" of porn. Really, sir, how much? :p

It was about 50Mb. It was just 2 files =\. Either way.Neither of my IDE channels are in PIO mode, both my IDE channels are in DMA mode at Ultra DMA Mode 2. This is only a recent thing, with no hardware or software changes or anything like that =\. My CPU usage also goes right up when emptying the recycle bin, and on further inverstigation it's my ObjectDock that's using the CPU excessivley while deleting. :confused:

[edit] So I created another user account with no objectdock and just basically normal windows and it empties fine, I shifted hundreds of files in a few seconds. Something up with my ObjectDock :confused: I'll try reinstalling that mofo or something..

If you'd rather not deal with the Recycle Bin, Pressing Shift+Delete will let you remove the files right away as oppsed to delaying their inevitable doom. I use it all the time, unless I'm unsure if I want to delete the file.