Is there a way to have all users point to the same recylce bin?

Have a user/s who was just moved to XP from 2000. User want's the recycle
bin to show items for all users who use the computer. Looking at Win2000 I
see that all users share the same recycle bin and can view all items
regardless of who is logged on. Is there a way to duplicate this behavior in
Windows XP.

jwmac wrote:
> Have a user/s who was just moved to XP from 2000. User want's the recycle
> bin to show items for all users who use the computer. Looking at Win2000 I
> see that all users share the same recycle bin and can view all items
> regardless of who is logged on. Is there a way to duplicate this behavior in
> Windows XP.

The only way that will happen is if the drive is FAT32. On NTFS drives
there is a different Recycle Bin for each user and Windows 2000 is no
different, it is also the same on NT4 with FAT16 and NTFS. If the drive
is a FAT file system you will see a Recycled folder that holds all the
deleted files for all the users. If the drive is NTFS you will see a
Recycler folder that contains a Recycle bin (identified by SID) for each
user.

John

"jwmac" <jwmac@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Have a user/s who was just moved to XP from 2000. User want's the recycle
> bin to show items for all users who use the computer. Looking at Win2000
> I
> see that all users share the same recycle bin and can view all items
> regardless of who is logged on. Is there a way to duplicate this behavior
> in
> Windows XP.
While there is only one folder \Recyclers\ with XP, every user has a
separate folder within that folder.
A member of the Administrators group can look in each one of these folders.
Jim