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Old July 20th 04, 07:24 PM
Cheryl
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How do I recover the recycle bin icon to the desktop if it
has been deleted?
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Old July 20th 04, 09:58 PM
PCR
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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.


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Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

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Old July 21st 04, 04:43 AM
Gary S. Terhune
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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.

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