After a series of issues caused by cumulative updates this month, Microsoft has now confirmed in the official Windows Release Health Dashboard that another unusual behavior affecting the Recycle Bin is affecting all supported Windows client and server versions.
According to Microsoft, after installing June Patch Tuesday updates (such as KB5094126 for Windows 11), when users try to permanently delete a file in the Recycle Bin, they will see the "internal name" of the file displayed in the confirmation dialog box instead of the actual file name the user sees in Explorer. For example, a file named "abc.png" will be displayed as "$Rxxxxx.png" in the deletion confirmation dialog box, which can easily make users mistakenly think that other files are being deleted.
At present, the impact of this issue is limited to the display error in the deletion confirmation dialog box. The recycle bin list view will still display the correct file name, and the file will appear with the correct name in its original location after being restored. In other words, the content and actual name of the file itself have not been tampered with or damaged, but a confusing internal naming string appears during the deletion confirmation process.
According to publicly available information, this recycle bin display error is extremely widespread, covering almost all Windows client and server versions that are still in the support period. On the client side, it includes Windows 11 26H1, 25H2, 24H2, 23H2, as well as Windows 10 22H2, Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021, LTSC 2019, and LTSB 2016. On the server side, it involves Windows Server 2025, 2022, 2019, 2016, and earlier Windows Server 2012 R2 and 2012.
Microsoft said it is developing a formal fix for this problem and plans to push it to users through subsequent Windows updates, but it has not yet made clear whether it will choose to release it uniformly on the next "Patch Tuesday" or release the patch in advance through "non-security, non-scheduled" out-of-band updates (OOB updates). For ordinary users, there is no simple local configuration item that can circumvent this problem before the patch is released. They can only pay special attention to the actual file names in the list when deleting Recycle Bin files.
It is worth noting that for commercial customers such as enterprises and institutions, Microsoft has provided temporary workarounds, but you need to contact the support team through the Microsoft Support for Business channel to obtain specific operating steps and configuration guidance. This means that if large organizations are worried that this issue will cause trouble in internal processes or compliance audits, they can deploy the officially recommended method before officially pushing the fix to reduce the risk of misoperation.
Overall, the impact level of this recycle bin file name display error is relatively low compared to serious problems such as OneDrive, Dropbox access exceptions, BitLocker recovery key locks, and blue screens that have been frequently reported recently, but it also reflects the current situation where the quality of recent patches has been questioned. Before Microsoft releases a fix patch, it is recommended that users give priority to the real file names displayed in the list before performing the "Permanently Delete from Recycle Bin" operation, and avoid making judgments based solely on the internal names in the dialog box.