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missing icon on desktop
How do I recover the recycle bin icon to the desktop if it
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http://www.kellys-korner.com/win98.htm For an excellent Bin write-up &
fixes http://www.aumha.org/ Perhaps here too http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/html/reg_files.html Badour has one. www.aha.ru/~mwz/files/bin-fix.cab Zhilin has something http://www.colba.net/~hlebo49/er1026.htm Leboeuf's stuff http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=136517 I actually didn't run the .reg programs I downloaded from Kelly, which would rebuild the Recycle Bin in the Registry. I looked through the docs and extracted this fix for a corrupt Bin: 1. "START, Shut Down, Restart in MS DOS mode" 2. Enter "Deltree /y c:\recycled\" (No quotes. You need the closing backslash [\], she says.) Repeat for each partition you may have with a Bin. 3. EXIT or Ctrl-Alt-Del to Windows. 4. Delete something useless & empty the Bin. BE CAREFUL, though; DELTREE is powerful. Get all the way to the end of that Deltree line, before you hit the Enter key. If you have anything in the Bin you want to keep, restore it first. The Bin will regenerate after re-boot-- totally empty. -- Thanks or Good Luck, There may be humor in this post, and, Naturally, you will not sue, should things get worse after this, PCR "Cheryl" wrote in message ... | How do I recover the recycle bin icon to the desktop if it | has been deleted? |
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Right-click the Desktop (empty space), then Properties. One of those =
tabs shows options for icons to use for My Computer, Recycle Bin, etc. = See if simply switching the recycle bin to a different icon makes it = visible. If not, there are Registry fixes to be done, but I'm not real = sure at this moment what they are. I'd have to look them up. --=20 Gary S. Terhune MS MVP for Win9x =20 "Cheryl" wrote in message = ... How do I recover the recycle bin icon to the desktop if it=20 has been deleted? |
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