Di bawah ini merupakan fungsi VB6 untuk memeriksa apakah recycle bin kosong? Bagaimana implementasinya dalam Visual Basic 6.0? bisa Anda simak kodenya dibawah ini:
Option Explicit
Private Type SHQUERYRBINFO
    cbSize As Long
    i64SizeLo As Long
    i64SizeHi As Long
    i64NumItemsLo As Long
    i64NumItemsHi As Long
End Type
Private Declare Function SHQueryRecycleBin Lib "shell32" Alias "SHQueryRecycleBinA" (ByVal pszRootPath As String, pSHQueryRBInfo As SHQUERYRBINFO) As Long
Function IsEmptyRecycle() As Boolean
    Dim RB As SHQUERYRBINFO
    RB.cbSize = Len(RB)
    Call SHQueryRecycleBin("C:\", RB)
    IsEmptyRecycle = (RB.i64NumItemsLo = 0)
End Function
Contoh penggunaan fungsi VB6 di atas:
Private Sub Command1_Click()
    MsgBox IsEmptyRecycle
End Sub