Does anybody know where this folder comes from? To my knowledge I’ve always had a Recycle Bin, and I’ve always had “show hidden files and folders on” but I’ve never seen $RECYCLE.BIN that’s showing up on all my drives all of a sudden. Is it a weird new feature? Side effect of some sort of clean-up program (I don’t use anything esoteric, just generic CCleaner, Defraggler etc)?
If I try and delete it, Windows basically says it’s impossible to delete the directory, and the cumulative sized are similar to that of Recycle Bin, confirmed that it is just the system Recycle Bin directory.
It’s not a bad thing they’re there (in fact, I’ve always known they were super secretly there), I’m just confused since I’m 100% certain they weren’t visible before. It’s not even a hidden folder, hidden folder icons are transparent on the GUI, but it’s solid like non-hidden folders.