"Are you sure you want to delete 'Windows'?"

[Theinfamousone]

When I go to empty the recycle bin. It looks like it's full but there doesn't appear to be anything in it. And when I hit the "empty" is says this. "Are you sure you want to delete 'Windows'?" And of course I can't. Anyone know what's up?

[Mel_Smiley]

Uh yeh you should delete Windows. IT sucks. Full of crapware! lol

[Kyle06]

Go to microsofts home page and click on windows updates it just might be a error and if it keeps commin up go to dos and reinstall windows

[isus]

lol... i would delete windows. i hate it that much. osx forever ;)

[dverma75]

Originally posted by Theinfamousone
When I go to empty the recycle bin. It looks like it's full but there doesn't appear to be anything in it. And when I hit the "empty" is says this. "Are you sure you want to delete 'Windows'?" And of course I can't. Anyone know what's up?

This happens when ur recycle is empty but the desktop icon or recycle shows that there is something in the recycle.

I run into this situation many times. Just say yes and u r good to go.

[cpugeniusmv]

lol, i've never run across that message before...

i would do it :shy

[PiRaNeTuS]

I too have run across this many times before. Clicking "yes" does no harm, so do not worry about it. I've really only seen it though on Win2k and Win98. Haven't seen it yet on XP, so maybe they corrected the problem.

[notbob]

it often happens on FAT32 installs of XP

if you see it every time you empty the bin, run chkdisk (it will run on reboot)

that fixes it

[Theinfamousone]

Originally posted by PiRaNeTuS
I too have run across this many times before. Clicking "yes" does no harm, so do not worry about it. I've really only seen it though on Win2k and Win98. Haven't seen it yet on XP, so maybe they corrected the problem.

Yeah, I'm on XP. That's just really weird.

[Sockfulloflove]

it happened to me more often on ME than XP. but has happend on XP a couple of times. but i didn't get a "do you want to delete windows." my recycle bin icon said there was something in it but really nothing appeared when i entered my recycle bin.

[mrlipring]

Xp does this for some reason.

I get told the bin has stuff i sure as hell didn't put there, and i get problems deleting .avi files and empty bloody folders!

I just drop to a dos shell and delete stuff manually, and if the rexycle bin won't "empty" i tend to make a shotcut to something on the desktop, put the shortcut in the bin and empty it then. problem solved.

[nasrules]

I had this numerous times on WinMe, but never so far on XP.........

[GATORIAN]

Theinfamousone , I got the message too ,because window washer make this problem .Just uncheck ===empty recycle bean===option on window washer.

[lion7718]

Originally posted by GATORIAN
Theinfamousone , I got the message too ,because window washer make this problem .Just uncheck ===empty recycle bean===option on window washer.

I was just going to post the samething..it is a known bug in Window Washer.

[JennEmile]

Originally posted by notbob
it often happens on FAT32 installs of XP

if you see it every time you empty the bin, run chkdisk (it will run on reboot)

that fixes it

I have had that message too. A couple of times. I'm running XP on NTFS. I have never used WindowsWasher, so I know that's not it. It doesn't delete"Windows" if you click yes anyway. Sometimes when I have clicked yes, it will not clear the recycle bin. When I try to empty the recycle bin again, it asks me if I want to delete Windows again. When I reboot, it clears up.:mellow