Empty Recycle Bin SHORTCUT

[edm107]

Hello Everyone!

I'm trying to make a icon shortcut of "Empty Recycle Bin" in TC toolbar...
My question: Is there a way to do that ?! so with a single click on a shortcut icons to empty recycle bin?..
If yes.. please tell me how.. cos i don't fine the command line in windows (win2k sp4)
THX

[djk]

Do you know that you can click with a right button of mouse on [F8 Delete] button at the bottom of TC? Then you can choose empty Recycle Bin.

[edm107]

I gues you don't understand me.. please reread the message.

[djk]

Have you tried it?
You get a context menu with this option: "Empty recycle bin". I know it's not a single click but double but I thought it can be helpful.

[edm107]

and what command line?

[djk]

I meant clicking right button of mouse on the function key button - F8 - if you have turned them on they are at the bottom of TC - below panels and command line.

[edm107]

Yes I finnaly understand what do you mean .. It's not what i was looking for but i found this option verry usefull I think I will use it .. it's much better then others I know.
Thank you!

[bobputnam]

Make an icon that calls this batch file:

del d:\recycled\*.* /q
del d:\recycled\*.* /q /a:h
del d:\recycled\*.* /q /a:s

Works like a charm.

[petergus]

My question: Is there a way to do that ?! so with a single click on a shortcut icons to empty recycle bin?..

Here is a small program than empty recycle bin.

http://w1.171.telia.com/~u17102211/recbin.exe - 45 kb

The program activate windows standard function to empty recycle bin,
SHEmptyRecycleBinA in shell32.dll.

Tested on windows xp only. If nothing happend when running your bin is empty.
If you want to empty your bin silent add SILENT in parameter.

//Peter

[edm107]

2bobputnam
Can you be more fpecific please?..

[Aezay]

Or this, it's even smaller, so small that Win9x can't run it I think, only NT/XP.
Note: Remove the trailing spaces after each line before decoding.

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MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="EmptyRec.rar"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="EmptyRec.rar"

UmFyIRoHADvQcwgADQAAAAAAAADqwnSAgCwARgEAAAAGAAACaAIs5OEWhi8dNQwAIAAAAEVtcHR5
UmVjLmV4ZQodURDL1gDbIzqVRhq/AXkH/FU4hINbRFHgUOQ4XgQRoeemj2x2dOe7kOlag3t78OaE
akG5+Dtk+F8jvRZI0bHv8OqINbTPBhhnszcz2YG/IPfg/Bm+zcD+yn1WB6rKMNzgKFAPcSDNCKKi
HzBGrgah2NSz++kHbk+Wh3AtfGGyPpuvW+R5m0m8Pm5yeuEN8jlarmZWjT216a6vxNahR+1nzDr6
cs+XURMTlaZGiMyJ0/BJCViPCdwpV0UnoF6Twdgf/hQlhmBmTPTaemWoaZ4KQDhgmWJy1EkKJDuJ
Tjffn4NT88SQdB7d/KXWQ43hjLHbZQLhMYF7aWZT+oX7x8o3nBlrVVLBSmxWEkC71toZ14+3hn6l
b20radgubo2rjRR7BHNcMfgbksg3pp1zuu515FqhUwS7i+x4xaSwsDvrBmPwN9/RxD17AEAHAA==

[Boofo]

Or this, it's even smaller, so small that Win9x can't run it I think, only NT/XP.
Note: Remove the trailing spaces after each line before decoding.

Code: Select all

MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="EmptyRec.rar"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="EmptyRec.rar"

UmFyIRoHADvQcwgADQAAAAAAAADqwnSAgCwARgEAAAAGAAACaAIs5OEWhi8dNQwAIAAAAEVtcHR5
UmVjLmV4ZQodURDL1gDbIzqVRhq/AXkH/FU4hINbRFHgUOQ4XgQRoeemj2x2dOe7kOlag3t78OaE
akG5+Dtk+F8jvRZI0bHv8OqINbTPBhhnszcz2YG/IPfg/Bm+zcD+yn1WB6rKMNzgKFAPcSDNCKKi
HzBGrgah2NSz++kHbk+Wh3AtfGGyPpuvW+R5m0m8Pm5yeuEN8jlarmZWjT216a6vxNahR+1nzDr6
cs+XURMTlaZGiMyJ0/BJCViPCdwpV0UnoF6Twdgf/hQlhmBmTPTaemWoaZ4KQDhgmWJy1EkKJDuJ
Tjffn4NT88SQdB7d/KXWQ43hjLHbZQLhMYF7aWZT+oX7x8o3nBlrVVLBSmxWEkC71toZ14+3hn6l
b20radgubo2rjRR7BHNcMfgbksg3pp1zuu515FqhUwS7i+x4xaSwsDvrBmPwN9/RxD17AEAHAA==

Aezay, exactly how do we do this? I have never done one of these before.

EDIT: I figured it out. I've never done one of these before. It worked great! Woiuld there be a way to maybe add the filenames in the box to show what you are deleteing? Might help in not making a mistake in emptying the recycle bin.

[bobputnam]

EDM,

I know that this works when using the FAT32 file system. I'm not sure about NTFS.

Create a new file in your winnt directory called dr.bat (I forget how you create a new file in TC - I just edit an existing small file - erase all the current contents - and save as dr.bat)

Insert the following text:

del c:\recycled\*.* /q /s
del c:\recycled\*.* /q /s /a:s
del c:\recycled\*.* /q /s /a:h
del d:\recycled\*.* /q /s
del d:\recycled\*.* /q /s /a:s
del d:\recycled\*.* /q /s /a:h
del e:\recycled\*.* /q /s
del e:\recycled\*.* /q /s /a:s
del e:\recycled\*.* /q /s /a:h
del f:\recycled\*.* /q /s
del f:\recycled\*.* /q /s /a:s
del f:\recycled\*.* /q /s /a:h

Add or delete any of the above lines so that they correspond to the drive letters whose recycle bin you want to empty.

Save the file.

In TC, go to configuration - button bar.

In the section for command line enter "c:\winnt\dr.bat" without the quotes.
Pick an icon and enter a tooltip.

Save the configuration.

[rolandd]

Create a new file in your winnt directory called dr.bat (I forget how you create a new file in TC - I just edit an existing small file - erase all the current contents - and save as dr.bat)

SHIFT-F4 will do it

And the recycle prog by Petergus is doing its task fine here WinXP.

[havanna]

2 djk:

Thanks for that one - I never thought of right-clickung those buttons!

Too bad it's only on the F8-Button...