Is there any replacement for progress bar

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C

Win32

Sir,
I have a dialog box with two without argument and without return type functions, a check box and has two push buttons

recycler();//---------Will empty the recycle bin
Emptier();//----------Will empty my old VS projects which I have used for learning

When the check box (Which specifically asks the user to empty the recycle bin) is checked recycler + Emptier function gets executed if the check box is unchecked Emptier function gets executed.

int checked;
case WM_COMMAND:
		if (LOWORD(wParam) == IDOK)
		{
			checked = IsDlgButtonChecked(hDlg, IDC_CHECK1);
			if (checked) {
				recycler();
				Emptier();
				}
			else
			{
				Emptier();
				
			}
break;
			
		}
		else if (LOWORD(wParam) == IDCANCEL)
			EndDialog(hDlg, LOWORD(wParam));
		return (INT_PTR)TRUE;
break;

Since I cant confirm that my code has done the job I used a progress bar to do the job
here is the code for it!

case WM_INITDIALOG:
		progressbar = GetDlgItem(hDlg, IDC_PROGRESS1);
		SendMessage(progressbar, PBM_SETRANGE, 0, MAKELPARAM(0, 10));
		SendMessage(progressbar, PBM_SETSTEP, (WPARAM)10, 0);
		return (INT_PTR)TRUE;

and I have sent the message successfully to the progress bar and progress bar shows some progress.

My problem is:
Since Visual studio projects are quiet huge and consumes a lot of memory I could not guess several things.

For example, My old, useless projects which I did created for learning consumes more than a GB which I consider use less and usually my recycle bin always has more than a GB of waste files.

When I run my program the progress is shown by by my Operating system (Windows 10) like this
http://tncdn.vikitech.netdna-cdn.com/assets/6-deleting.png[^]
in addition to my progress bar.

On experimenting with this I found my progress bar just simply shows the progress but not actually doing work.
Since my English is bad I'll try to explain this clear:
when I click on the OK button within a fraction of second my progress bars beeps a sound(I used Beep(x,y) function to know my progress has been completed)

Every time I get comments that my code is insufficient for the experts to solve to avoid my mistakes I have provided the complete code below for the convenient view!

int checked;
HWND progressbar;
INT_PTR CALLBACK Optimizer(HWND hDlg, UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
	UNREFERENCED_PARAMETER(lParam);
	switch (message)
	{
		
	case WM_INITDIALOG:
		progressbar = GetDlgItem(hDlg, IDC_PROGRESS1);
		SendMessage(progressbar, PBM_SETRANGE, 0, MAKELPARAM(0, 10));
		SendMessage(progressbar, PBM_SETSTEP, (WPARAM)10, 0);
		return (INT_PTR)TRUE;

	case WM_COMMAND:
		if (LOWORD(wParam) == IDOK)
		{
			checked = IsDlgButtonChecked(hDlg, IDC_CHECK1);
			if (checked) {
				recycler();
				Emptier();
				SendMessage(progressbar, PBM_STEPIT, 0, 0);
				Beep(750, 100);
				}
			else
			{
				Emptier();
				SendMessage(progressbar, PBM_STEPIT, 0, 0);
				Beep(750,100);
			}
			
		}
		else if (LOWORD(wParam) == IDCANCEL)
			EndDialog(hDlg, LOWORD(wParam));
		return (INT_PTR)TRUE;
	
		break;
	case WM_CTLCOLORDLG:
	{
		return(LONG)DlgBackground;
	}
	case WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC:
	{
		//------
	}
	case WM_PAINT:
	{
		PAINTSTRUCT ps;
		HDC hdc = BeginPaint(hDlg, &ps);
		// TODO: Add any drawing code that uses hdc here...
		HBITMAP logo;
		logo = LoadBitmap(hInst, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDB_BITMAP2));
		HDC logoB;
		logoB = CreateCompatibleDC(hdc);
		SelectObject(logoB, logo);
		BitBlt(hdc, 0, 0, 4100, 4100, logoB, 10, 10, SRCCOPY);
	}
	
	}
	return (INT_PTR)FALSE;
}

What I have tried:

I have referred to some experts answer and came to know that it is not the purpose of progress bar.
This is what I learnt,
One can use the progress bar only if he knows how long will the task takes place

I also referred Goggle through various key words like progress bar for unknown time and found various solutions in C# which is quiet difficult to figure out my solution

So I don't know here what should I do?

Thank you