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Recicle Bin icon is gone

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Name: buba
Date: February 18, 2004 at 12:18:00 Pacific
OS: win XP
CPU/Ram: P4 & 256 ram
Comment:

My Recicle Bin icon is gone. Please help.

Thankīs

buba



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Response Number 1
Name: Drayline
Date: February 18, 2004 at 12:24:06 Pacific
Reply:

I presume you mean the Icon on the Desktop.

Right click on your Desktop >
Properties >
Desktop Tab >
Customize Desktop >
On the General Tab, click Restore Default and ok.

this should restore any default icons back onto the desktop.


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Response Number 2
Name: clubjunkie
Date: February 18, 2004 at 12:34:30 Pacific
Reply:

you may have to right click desktop, go to Arrange Icons By, and then hit SHow Desktop Icons


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Response Number 3
Name: buba
Date: February 18, 2004 at 14:36:40 Pacific
Reply:

Nope! Nothing helped.Notice that the icon disappeared from the Windows Explorer too.

buba


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Response Number 4
Name: clubjunkie
Date: February 18, 2004 at 15:05:55 Pacific
Reply:

your icons are held in a cache in your system32 folder (cant remember name). that might have a problem. try running
sfc from the command promt.
go run > cmd
and type
sfc/scannow


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Response Number 5
Name: BLEEM
Date: February 18, 2004 at 15:43:52 Pacific
Reply:

Hi there..

Create a new text document on your desktop. and open it. Insert this text into the new document.

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel]
"{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\NonEnum]
"{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}"=-

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}]
@="Recycle Bin"


Once you've added this new text...goto File/Save As... and call this text document recyclebin.reg

Save it on your desktop.

Now back up your registry.

Once backed up...right click the recyclebin.reg file on your desktop, and select merge.
Answer yes to the following prompt you will get, and then re-boot.

Once back into windows..you should have a new recycle bin.


BLeeM


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Response Number 6
Name: buba
Date: February 19, 2004 at 04:14:47 Pacific
Reply:

Nope!

Nothing happened, even with that reg stuff.

buba


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Response Number 7
Name: Tufenuf
Date: February 19, 2004 at 05:17:12 Pacific
Reply:

buba, Go to the link below, click on "Win XP Fixes", then click on "Restore Recycle Bin Desktop Icon" and download & run the "recycbin-2.reg " file.

Restore Recycle Bin Desktop Icon

If the above doesn't solve the problem go to the link below and under the letter "R", scroll down to "Replace/Repair the Recycle Bin (Line 64) and download & run the fix.

Replace/Repair the Recycle Bin

HTH,
Tufenuf


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Response Number 8
Name: buba
Date: February 19, 2004 at 05:59:20 Pacific
Reply:

Itīs OK now.

Thankīs

buba


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Response Number 9
Name: Tufenuf
Date: February 19, 2004 at 06:08:24 Pacific
Reply:

buba, Could you tell us which fix worked so that others may use it if needed?

Tufenuf


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Response Number 10
Name: fallenint
Date: February 19, 2004 at 13:00:05 Pacific
Reply:

i think it was the downloadable one


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Response Number 11
Name: BLEEM
Date: February 19, 2004 at 14:05:10 Pacific
Reply:

Nice fix Tufenuf..

Guess I'll update my reg fix which didn't work..lol

Thanks :)

BLeeM


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