Recycle Bin extreme memory usage resulting in OS freezing & crashing

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vertigo220

I just had my computer freeze and crash twice while trying to clear out the recycle bin. It had probably 20-30k items totaling a few hundred GB or so, and when opening it, it did what explorer often does where the bar at the top showing the loading progress moved extremely slowly as it took at least a few minutes to fully load the contents. And every time I selected a few thousand items to delete (I try to only do a few thousand at a time since Windows is a slow, buggy, poorly optimized POS and even with that amount it can take a few or even several minutes to "discover" the items and then mor

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