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How to quickly empty a very full recycle bin?
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Mar 15, 202644374 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I have deleted about half a million files from a folder, and didn't think to press Shift in order to delete them completely straight away. Now they're clogging my recycle bin, and Windows claims it will take 4 hours to empty it - it claims to do about 68 files per second. Is there some magic or an …
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Do you have a virus scanner that does scanning? Disable it during your delete action. With my virus scanner disabled deleting is over 10 times faster. (I never understood why it checks files that are about to be deleted)
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