I only noticed something was off when older items started going missing.

I am trying to fix an HP Pavilion A610E, running WinXP SP3. The Recycle Bin icon on the desktop shows that there are files in it, and when I right-click it, it does give me the option to empty.

In my Windows 10, the symptom is that when I try to open my recycle bin or try to right-click and empty, the system lags for like 20s before it does anything. When I open recycle bin properties, there ...