Vista Tutorial - recycle bin missing!

i may have accidentally deleted my recycle bin and now i cannot find it
anywhere. at least i think thats what happened. i can still send things to
the recycle bin but i have no idea where it is. i did a search and came up
with nothing. any ideas?

Right-click on the Desktop, click Personalize, and in the left pane, click Change desktop icons. In the Desktop Icon Settings dialog, enable the Recycle Bin checkbox. Click OK. See also:

How to restore the Recycle bin icon that has been accidentally deleted:
http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/141/1/

How to hide the "Delete" command from Recycle Bin context menu in Windows Vista:
http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/142/1/

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Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
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"bandmama" <bandmama@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:F288B160-3490-42C7-9FB4-494482F44979@microsoft.com...
i may have accidentally deleted my recycle bin and now i cannot find it
anywhere. at least i think thats what happened. i can still send things to
the recycle bin but i have no idea where it is. i did a search and came up
with nothing. any ideas?

Hey, thanks for the REG files, Ramesh! I'm tired of accidentally
deleting my Recycle Bin and have no doubt that others are feeling the same.

Daze
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Ramesh, MS-MVP wrote:

> How to hide the "Delete" command from Recycle Bin context menu in Windows Vista:
> http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/142/1/
>

"bandmama" <bandmama@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
>i may have accidentally deleted my recycle bin and now i cannot find it
> anywhere. at least i think thats what happened. i can still send things to
> the recycle bin but i have no idea where it is. i did a search and came up
> with nothing. any ideas?

In addition to Ramesh's post, it's easy to delete. To empty the recycle bin
right click on it, and make sure you choose "Empty Recycle Bin", but if you
choose "Delete" then the bin is removed from the desktop.

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You're welcome, Daze. This is one of those tweaks which took almost 1 hour of my time, and eventually turned out to be a simple one :-)

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Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
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"Daze N. Knights" <Daze@Microdot.dot> wrote in message news:%23N320yocHHA.1240@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
Hey, thanks for the REG files, Ramesh! I'm tired of accidentally
deleting my Recycle Bin and have no doubt that others are feeling the same.

Daze
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Ramesh, MS-MVP wrote:

> How to hide the "Delete" command from Recycle Bin context menu in Windows Vista:
> http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/142/1/
>

Actually I don't think you accidently deleted it, sometimes when I empty it,
it just disappears by itself. I then go to the personalize screen and bring
it back. I think there must be a bug causing it to disappear.

"bandmama" <bandmama@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F288B160-3490-42C7-9FB4-494482F44979@microsoft.com...
>i may have accidentally deleted my recycle bin and now i cannot find it
> anywhere. at least i think thats what happened. i can still send things to
> the recycle bin but i have no idea where it is. i did a search and came up
> with nothing. any ideas?

I especially appreciate that you not only created the hidedelete REG
file for us, but also supplied a showdelete REG file for undoing the
effects of the first. Thanks again.

Daze
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Ramesh, MS-MVP wrote:
> You're welcome, Daze. This is one of those tweaks which took almost 1 hour of my time, and eventually turned out to be a simple one :-)
>

At least you guys have a recycle bin.

I don't have a recycle bin at all. The icon option is greyed out. I
can't even enable the icon on the desktop. I have found no help
anywhere on how to get it back at all.

It was never there from the start with Vista.

I have tried to apply the reg files i have found and nothing has
helped. THere is still no icon on my desktop and the icon options in
Personalize still shows Recycle bin greyed out and not checked.

I don't even know where to find the recycle bin to empty it at all.


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You *should* be able to find it in My Computer, to the left, at the
bottom of the list of drives after Network and Control Panel. I can
delete mine from there, though your situation sounds problematical.

Daze
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indygeek79 wrote:
> At least you guys have a recycle bin.
>
> I don't have a recycle bin at all. The icon option is greyed out. I
> can't even enable the icon on the desktop. I have found no help
> anywhere on how to get it back at all.
>
> It was never there from the start with Vista.
>
> I have tried to apply the reg files i have found and nothing has
> helped. THere is still no icon on my desktop and the icon options in
> Personalize still shows Recycle bin greyed out and not checked.
>
> I don't even know where to find the recycle bin to empty it at all.
>
>

It is not listed in "Computer"

I have seen a few other post by searching google of others with this
too but no answers so far.


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