Re: The Recycler Folder

From: Mike Burgess (winhelp2002_at_spamthis.com)
Date: 11/28/03 

Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 16:06:01 -0500

Jorge,
[The Recycler folder is used only on NTFS partitions.]
Differences Between the Recycle Bin and the Recycler Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=171694

Files Are Not Deleted From Recycler Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=229041
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"Jorge Alexandres" <Rock2000@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:02af01c3b5ed$9c627280$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I am aware of a folder named Recycler, hiden and
> discovered in Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and
> Windows NT 4.0, servers and workstations.
>
> Symantec report to be a virus, but in my research it makes
> me thing is a folder created by the operating system and
> for remote services when enebled in the machine.
>
> Does anybody have any input about this folder?  So far I
> been deleting the folder from a DOS window, recreating it
> and making a recycler.rar file of it, then deleting the
> folder again, renaming recycler.rar to only recycler, and
> giving the file +r +h +s attributes.  This is the only way
> yo avoid the Recycler folder re-creating.
>
> I will appreciate any input about this issue.
>
> Thank you!

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