In Win 7 basket is empty, but non-empty

My computer has run Win 7 X 64 very well for the past year. However, a few days ago I was remove several hundred GB of old project files, when I noticed that the trash did not indicate that I deleted all the files. After investigation, I found that the files were still intact in the Administration, at the command prompt, I have so used rd /s /q C:\$recycle.bin to permanently delete files, & to free disk space. However, this problem continues to happen, & I have to run the same command from anywhere, anytime, I really want to delete the old files.

I thought that this above command actually destroyed the old trash, let the system to rebuild a new, so I'm surprised that this problem still exists. I have six hard drives on this computer, and then run the above command for all readers, but still the glitch. I also run the two ladies of local virus & Internet, but couldn't find any problems. The thing only I noticed, is that when I ran Windows Update last week (I do it manually, wait a week or so all updates & patches agree), it took nearly five hours to complete, but I don't see how that could relate to the trash.

Is there a registry fix for this?

Aloha Ken!

Thank you for the update.

In this case, I suggest you run the tool (SFC.exe) System File Checker and check if that helps resolve the issue.

System File Checker is a Windows utility that allows users to find corruptions in Windows system files and restore the damaged files. It will scan your system files and repair the system missing or corrupt files in Windows. To run the analysis of CFS, refer to Microsoft article below.

http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/929833

Please post back your results for assistance.

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