Cygwin corruption of $Recycle.Bin in Vista

When installing Cygwin sometimes it corrupts the $Recycle.Bin folder with it’s permission setting somehow. That in turn makes problem in your Vista OS while operating through the explorer.

Work around through it is a bit tricky for Vista. Here is what you can do :

Option #1

Restore to previous version the root drive

Alternatively, if you can’t succeed doing that or do not have any option for doing that try the following:

Option #2

Start a command prompt or type cmd at the run prompt with admin rights.
Type the followings:

cd \
attrib -S -H /S $Recycle.Bin
del /F /S /Q /ASH $Recycle.Bin\
exit

Helpful sites for non-vista users:
Setup32.com
Microsoft support