My system has a lot of partitions, each of which has a recycle bin.

I recently discovered that (except for C-drive), all the recycle bins contain a Desktip.ini file. Explorer does not show these files. Neither the Disk Cleanup utility nor the empty recycle bin function will remove these files. You need some third party utility like Ztree to see these files.

I have two systems. My older system has 73 Desktop.ini files, about 20 of which seem to be temporary internet files. The lnewer system has about 20-30 of these files.

I am not sure if the older system has more because it has had more time to accumulate them, or it has more because it has more folders.

Do any of you know anything about the above? I wonder why they exist.

It looks to me as though the files in the recycle bins are required, and MS tries to hide them from the user so he will not erase them, and cause some problem.

I wonder what else MS keeps secret for our own good.

I hate condescending bastards who try to protect me from my own stupidity. Damn it all, give me the information and let me take care of myself. One of my pet peeves is the governement trying to protect fools from their folly, which cannot be done. In the meantime, they create restictions and red tape that annoy the hell out of the rest of us.

I tolerated my mother who did not think I could cross a busy street on my own when I was forty, while everybody else seemed to think I was as least a bit smarter than a moron. If I could do something about it, I would not tolerate the MS Big brother attitude, although I otherwise am satisfied with their behavior and products.