Archive for November, 2005

Recycle Bin not emptying – 30seconds, now 60seconds…

November 4th, 2005

I got to say impressive – the deleted spyware I have seen can scrap for life like a program that refused tobe deleted, like in the Matrix. You click “empty recycle bin” and its taking 30 seconds, then 60 seconds, then 30 seconds and it keeps going.

On the Recycle Bin icon:
right click | Properties | check “Do not move files to the recycle bin…” | click OK

Now the system has 0% allocated for the recycle bin, empty one more time and the files that refused to leave will be gone. Don’t forget to uncheck the box – unless you want to keep this setting…

Portable Cygwin

November 4th, 2005

Portable Cygwin/Move your Cygwin install
Scenario: Cygwin is installed on your D drive, I mvoe the Cygwin directory to my C drive, fix the desktop shortcut and its not starting, giving me funny messages about the tmp directory and /etc/passwd » More: Portable Cygwin