Retarded Recycle Bin

Originally Posted by Roph

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

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?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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.

There's nowhere I can't reach.