Your Questions About Recycling

The Expert answers:

The recycle bin’s capacity may have been set to zero.
If it has:

1. Right clik on the recycle bin icon
2. Choose properties
3. Uncheck the “Do not move file to the …” Box if it has been checked off.
4. You may need to set the recycle bin capcity. Simply slides the bar to maybe 5%. Or 10 for a bigger size.

Check out this microsoft article for more info.

The Expert answers:

Restore Recycle Bin (Windows XP):

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

Restore Recycle Bin (Vista):

1. Right click the Vista Desktop
2. Click on Personalize
3. Select: ‘Change desktop icons’
4. At the Desktop Icon Settings, place a tick next to: ‘Recycle Bin’.

The Expert answers:

The recycle bin can be found by 1) going to Start, then 2) Search, and then 3) typing in recycle bin in the search box. This should bring up the recycle bin. You can then click and drag it to your desktop. Good Luck!

The Expert answers:

You can use the Microsoft Fixit program to put the recycle bin on your desktop:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810869

Howard

P.S. I see that what you really want is to automatically EMPTY the recycle bin.
This website shows how to do exactly this thing.

Http://www.technixupdate.com/empty-recycle-bin-by-simply-clicking-a-desktop-shortcut-or-through-command-prompt/

P.P.S. I downloaded the file and followed the directions and I have a nice “Empty Recycle Bin” icon to click on – in addition to the regular Recycle Bin icon. It seems to work well, but it momentarily opens a DOS-like window. The window appears and disappears so fast one can barely see it. In general I like this Empty Recycle Bin Icon.

The Expert answers:

The fact is u cant delete recycle bin. It jst got hidden!!! If u r using vista or windows 7 click on start then type desktop icon -then click on show or hide desktop icons – a dialog box will appear showing ‘DESKTOP ICON SETTINGS’ cheak on the select box near the recycle bin menu, then select ‘OK’.
HERE UR PROBLEM IS SOLVED.
Another way is click on control panel-personalization( a dialog box will appear)- then on left hand side click on desktop icon settings.

Another way is select run program -there type ‘GPEDIT.MSC’ then press enter
now a dialog box will appear there on left hand side
*expand ‘Administrative Templates’
*then click on desktop
*there find ‘Remove Recycle Bin Icon from Desktop’ on the right hand box
*double click on the above file
*a property window will appear then select ‘Not Configured’ option then click ‘OK’.
*now log off the desktop.

The Expert answers:

Hi,

If it is a large amount of data it wont store in Recycle bin.

Windows-based computers have file allocation tables. These tables tell the system at which location on the disk a file can be found. When you drop a file on a certain location, the table is updated, then read by the system to find the file when requested.

When a file is deleted (dropped into the recycle bin), the system simply changes the first few bytes of the file handle in some way, to “mark” the file as deleted in the allocation table. However, the space the file occupies isn’t made available at first, not until the file is voluntarily removed from the recycle bin. This gives you the opportunity to “recover” the file (by undoing the handle changes made by the system). Once the file is “emptied’ from the bin, the system marks the space as available, so other files can overwrite it. That’s when it really gets deleted.

This is why it’s possible to recover deleted or ’emptied’ files with some work and the proper tools.

This is why all computer users need two things:

1. Backups of all critical files.

2. The ability to ask themselves if they really want to delete the file, and if they backed it up.

Good Luck,
JA

The Expert answers:

Once you empty the recycle bin, the files should be deleted and not come back to the recycle bin.
There are some software programs that can recover deleted files but there is also software to securely delete sensitive information. Try searching for ‘secure delete’ or similar. Or check out Eraser:
http://www.heidi.ie/node/6

Also, a quick shortcut is to use SHIFT + DELETE when deleting a file, rather than just delete. This will bypass the recycle bin and delete the file immediately.

The Expert answers:

It would be stupid to actually delete the recycle bin but it sounds like you don’t want to see it on your desktop anymore. My friend had this problem when he tried to make his pc look like a mac. Right click anywhere on your desktop and then go to, Arrange Icons By, then uncheck show desktop icons. This will make it so that you have no icons on your desktop. Also if you want files to skip the recycle bin and just get deleted right click the recycle bin, click properties and check the box that says, Do not move files to Recycle Bin. Remove files immediately when deleted. This way you dont need to show your icons every so often and empty your recycle bin, It will always be empty.

The Expert answers:

Emptying your Recycle Bin does NOT remove the items from your machine… It just deletes it from the directory. The actual contents, however are still there and it does make your computer appear to have some more space.

Deleting through the Recycle Bin just puts the contents up for overwriting,