Your Questions About Recycling

The Expert answers:

Below you will find three methods of restoring your Recycle Bin to your desktop:
Method #1:

Right-click an empty area of your desktop
Select Properties
Click the Desktop tab
Click the Customize button
Click Restore Default
Exit all windows and restart your computer
Method #2:

Note: Be sure to make a backup copy of your registry prior to making any changes.

Go to Start>> Run. Type in: regedit [Enter]

Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerDesktopNameSpace

Hold the mouse on NameSpace and right-click once. From the resulting menu, select Edit>> New>> Key

Copy and Paste the following Key code (including the brackets):

{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

Press Enter on your keyboard, exit the registry editor and restart your system.

Method#3:

Download this registry fix to repair or replace the recycle bin
http://www.5starsupport.com/download/replbin.reg

The Expert answers:

How to Hide/Un-Hide Recycle Bin Icon on Desktop in XP
Posted by Shailendra Doke | Jan 21, 2008

In this post you will learn How to Hide or Un-Hide the Recycle Bin Icon in Windows XP. Many people hate this icon, I don’t know why, they just don’t want to let it appear on their Desktop.

I am explaining two ways from which you can Hide the Recycle Bin Icon and whenever you need it, you can Un-Hide it.

1) This is the simple way as compare to second one.

From Group Policy Editor we will Hide the Recycle Bin Icon.

Click Start, Click Run, Type GPEDIT.MSC, Press Enter
On the Left Column Expand Administrative Templates, click on Desktop
On the Right Column Find Remove Recycle Bin Icon from Desktop
Double click on it, A Property Window will Appear
Select Enable option, Press OK.
Refresh Desktop, Enjoy!
To Show Recycle Bin Icon on Desktop, Do same steps but instead of Enable select Not Configured.

The Expert answers:

Vista/Win 7

Click Start.
Click on Control Panel.
Click on Personalization
Click on Change desktop icons on the left side of the Personalization box.
Put a check/tick in the box next to Recycle Bin.
Click OK.

XP

Right-click an empty area of your desktop.
Select Properties.
Click the Desktop tab.
Click the Customize button.
Click Restore Default.
Exit all windows and restart your computer.

If you want to prevent the Recycle Bin from accidental deletion, follow these steps:

***Always back up the registry before making changes (make a Restore Point)***

1.Navigate through the Registry Editor to
HKCRCLSID{645FF040-5081-
101B-9F08-
00AA002F954E}.
2.Create a new registry key called Shell.
3.Create a new registry key named Delete and put it beneath the Shell key. The path should look like this:
HKCRCLSID{645FF040-5081-
101B-9F08-
00AA002F954E}ShellDelete.
4.Modify the Default key and assign it a value of Recycle Bin.
5.Exit Regedit.

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The Expert answers:

It “could” be that you just didn’t see and interpret the information correctly regarding your hard drive space before and after because emptying your recycle bin is “supposed” to free up hard drive space.

Or it could be that there is some corruption in your Recycle Bin data file.

For testing purposes, perhaps you could try a program like CCleaner since it’s free and it’s supposed to do the same job as well as several others.

Http://download.cnet.com/ccleaner/

The freeware CCleaner hasn’t seen many major revisions since Piriform launched it in 2004, so when you do see a major update, you can be assured that it’s going to come with impressive new tools. CCleaner 3 doesn’t disappoint on that front, introducing two major new features that make it worth the upgrade.

One is a drive wiping tool that can wipe all the data from your hard drive, but can also scrub only the available free space. As with many of the tools in CCleaner, it’s fairly nuanced and allows for a simple one-pass overwrite, a Department of Defense-level three-pass option, a National Security Administration-level seven-pass cleaning, and a 35-pass Gutmann-level deep scrub. The more passes you select, the slower the deletion process.

Edit: I am now uninstalling unwanted programs and find that that too increases the disk space used.

That’s not supposed to happen. Maybe you have a virus or something that duplicates files that you try to delete, or maybe like I said there is some corruption with your Recycle Bin data file or some configuration error for the Recycle Bin. Here are the instructions for deleting that file in Windows Vista. If you’re using a different version you should be able to follow the general instructions to delete that file.

Http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/131294-recycle-bin-corrupted-cannot-delete-file-folder.html

The Expert answers:

I’m assuming that you cannot find the Recycling Bin icon that is normally on your desktop. If this is the case then here is how you get it to show back up:

– Right-click on your desktop and choose “Properties” on the menu that pops up.

– Choose the “Desktop” tab at the top of that window and at the bottom of that window you will see a button called “Customize Desktop”, click on that and you will get a new window to pop up

– In the new window you will find a checkbox for the Recycling Bin, just put a check in that box and click OK on that window as well as OK in the Properties window that opened first and it should be there

Now you should be able to right-click on the Recycling Bin icon and choose “Empty Recycling Bin”

Hope that helps!

The Expert answers:

The recycle bin is just another folder on your computer. If you want to restore files from it you can, so it’s more of a last-ditch “are you REALLLY sure you want to delete that?” for trigger-happy users.

A better question is, how can you restore files that are destroyed and no more? (P.S. To empty or restore files in the recycle bin, forever, right-click it. You can go from there.)

The Expert answers:

From the Microsoft website:

Edit the registry to restore the Recycle Bin
Warning Serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly by using Registry Editor or by using another method. These problems might require that you reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that these problems can be solved. Modify the registry at your own risk.

Note This procedure does not work if the system administrator used a Group Policy setting to hide the Recycle Bin (or “All Icons”) on the Desktop.

To edit the registry to make the Recycle Bin icon reappear on the desktop, follow these steps: 1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.
3. Locate the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerDesktopNameSpace

The Expert answers:

You probably hid the Recycle Bin.

Windows XP.
1. Right click on an empty point of the desktop, and click Properties.
2. Click the “Desktop” tab.
3. Click “Customize Desktop”.
4. Check “Recycle Bin” if unchecked.
5. Click OK to exit out.

Windows Vista:
1. Right click on an empty point of the desktop, and click Persoonalize.
2. On the left pane, click “Change desktop icons”.
3. Check “Recycle Bin” if unchecked.
4. Click OK to exit out.

The Expert answers:

HOW. How you deleted your recycle bin. And which window you are using.

Because recycle bin can’t be deleted. You must haver deleted a shortcut to recycle bin.

Search in your system recycle bin