[Asp]

Is there a built-in command that I can use to empty the Recycle bin in Win2k?
I'd like to add that to batch files I use to clean up crap and make room.

If not, a simple third-party utility?

This post has been edited by Asp: 10 June 2009 - 06:44 AM

[Colonel O'Neill]

The command line stuff to do that is:

ATTRIB %systemdrive%\RECYCLER\* -R -S -H /S /D
RD %systemdrive%\RECYCLER /S /Q

Put it in a batch file and you're good to go.

EDIT: Sometimes RD won't do it's job, so to be safe:


ATTRIB %systemdrive%\RECYCLER\* -R -S -H /S /D
DEL %systemdrive%\RECYCLER\* /F /S /Q
RD %systemdrive%\RECYCLER /S /Q

This post has been edited by Colonel O'Neill: 10 June 2009 - 07:01 AM

[dencorso]

You mean "RECYCLED", not "RECYCLER", of course!

An easy alternative is NirSoft's free NIRCMD.
At the command prompt or using Start -> Run, just type:
NIRCMD.EXE emptybin <enter>

[Asp]

dencorso, on Jun 11 2009, 07:39 AM, said:

You mean "RECYCLED", not "RECYCLER", of course!

An easy alternative is NirSoft's free NIRCMD.
At the command prompt or using Start -> Run, just type:
NIRCMD.EXE emptybin <enter>

Thanks, that's simpler, especially as I have a silly number of partitions and so each one has its own recycle folder. Nircmd empties them all.

[Colonel O'Neill]

dencorso, on Jun 10 2009, 04:39 PM, said:

You mean "RECYCLED", not "RECYCLER", of course!

An easy alternative is NirSoft's free NIRCMD.
At the command prompt or using Start -> Run, just type:
NIRCMD.EXE emptybin <enter>

It's RECYCLER on my computer .
It might be because it's Windows 2000, because I have seen RECYCLED sometimes.