Your Questions About Recycling

The Expert answers:

Right click anywhere on your desktop and select ‘personalise’

On the left hand side you will see the option ‘change desktop icons’ ..click on it

The tick the box next to recycle bin and click ‘apply’ then ‘ok’

The Expert answers:

No it is not gone forever you may be able to recover using a couple of free programs:

UNDELETE PLUS (FREE):
Undelete Plus is a free versatile program that will work with all the latest versions of Windows and can handle both FAT and NTFS file systems. It’s equally at home with removable media too so you can recover files from memory cards and flash drives. Tick the box to select a drive and click Start Scan to analyse the drive. This can take quite a while to complete on a large drive.
When it’s completed the scan the right-hand pane shows a list of the files available for recovery. You can sort these into file types by selecting from the pane on the left. Select a location to save the undeleted files at the bottom of the screen. You have the option of retaining the original folder structure if you’re recovering entire folders.
It can be downloaded from:
http://www.undelete-plus.com/

RECUVA (FREE)
Another good free one from:
http://www.recuva.com/

WDW

The Expert answers:

Uhh..whut?!!?…lol..xDD
well, if u have ur xp disc then put it in and choose start>run > type ‘cmd’
so that thing should come up> then in it type ”sfc/scannow” so now you should see a small dialog box then it will do the rest, make sure the disc is in there thts all……..lol

The Expert answers:

I’ve never seen an auto-empty option on Windows Recycle Bin (assuming you’re talking about Windows), but there is a Do Not Move Files To The Recycle Bin mode. Try this:

1. Right-click on your Recycle Bin desktop icon and select Properties.
2. Examine the Settings for selected location group.
3. If the Do Not Move … Radio button is selected, select Custom size instead and Click OK.

Hope that helps.

The Expert answers:

Well, this is what happened to me…

When i updated some apps on my ipod, it deleted the old version of the app automatically and replaced it with the updated version of the app. Thats why there are apps in your recycle bin (if you have updated any recently).

To find out if it is necessary to remove them you should confirm that the recycle bin files are the old version by checking the apps folder in My Computer. That folder is usually in your music folder>itunes then> folder named either ipod/phone etc. Applications. If the app file is still there, then that is the updated version of your app and the old app is in the recycle bin . It is OK to delete the recycle bin app file if your scenario is the same as the above.

I hope my advice helped,
Jordy

The Expert answers:

THAT PROBLEM HAS HAPPENED TO ME TO BUT I FOUND AWAY.
FIRST–> Right click any blank area of your desktop. In the menu that comes up, click on “Properties.”
SECOND–> Click on the “Desktop” tab, and then click on the “Customize Desktop” button.
THIRD–> On the “General” tab, you will see a field with some standard desktop icons. Click on the “recycle bin” icon and then click on “Restore Default.” Click “OK,” and then “Apply,” and finally “OK” again. You should see your recycle bin back in its spot on your desktop. If your recycle bin is still not appearing on your desktop, try the next steps.
FOURTH–>Right click a blank area of your taskbar, point to “Toolbars,” and then click on “Desktop.”
FIFTH–>Click on the double carets (>>) next to “Desktop” on your taskbar. Look for your recycle bin in the menu that comes up.
SIXTH–>Drag the recycle bin from the menu to your desktop by clicking on it with your mouse, holding the mouse button down, and moving it to the desktop.

The Expert answers:

Hi,

I don’t see why not as the recycle bin is really just a folder.

So if you can access the old hard drive it is just a case of finding where the bin is located.

That will no doubt depend on your operating system, a quick google search should find that info for you.

I found this for Vista :-

The Recycle Bin location is hidden at the root, e.g., “C:$Recycle.Bin”. There are two Recycle Bins in $Recycle.Bin, because the desktop shortcut’s icon changes when it’s full or empty. It gets more complicated. The two Recycle Bins in $Recycle.Bin are also shortcuts. The actual location of the Recycle Bin is in another hidden folder, also at the system root, called RECYCLER.

Arnak

The Expert answers:

Here’s how to restore your Recycle Bin to your Desktop:
1. Right click an empty area of your Desktop.
2. Select Personalize.
3. Under the “Task” category, click the “Change Desktop Icons” link.
4. Place a checkmark in the Recycle Bin checkbox.
5. Click OK.

Other option is to undo the system change with “System Restore”. Thru this option you undo changes to your computer’s operating system and programs without affecting personal files such as documents or photos.
Take in account that when you use a Restore Point, you are going back in time, so any change done to the system after the date of the Restore point (like programs installations) will be lost, because you are going back to a point when they were not installed, only your personal files (documents, photos, music, etc) will not be affected.
To use System Restore:
1. – Click the Start button Picture of the Start button,
2.- Type System Restore in the Search box,
3.- Click System Restore (type your password or provide confirmation if prompted).
4.- Follow the steps in the wizard.
System Restore might suggest a recent restore point or you you can choose from a list of available restore points.

The Expert answers:

Did you happen to recycle you recycle bin?