Recycle bin refresh vista

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Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:. Click Start , click Run , type regedit, and then click OK. In the Value data box, type 0 , and then click OK. In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK. Right-click the registry key that you located in step 3, point to New , and then click Key.

If the system administrator used a Group Policy setting to hide the Recycle Bin or "All Icons" on the Desktop, you may have to contact the system administrator to restore the Recycle Bin icon. If your system is not Windows XP Professional, you can try the procedure in the "Workaround" section. Click the registry key that you located in step 3, and then in the right pane, click the following registry DWORD value:.

On the Edit menu, click Delete , and then click Yes. If you cannot restore the Recycle Bin by using the resolutions that are listed in this article, work around this issue by creating a shortcut to the Recycle Bin:. Click Start , and then click My Computer. On the Tools menu, click Folder Options. Click the View tab, and then click to clear the Hide protected operating system files Recommended check box.

This will bring up the same dialog similar to the one in Windows Vista where you can just check Recycle Bin to bring it back to your desktop. On Windows 8, you click on the pseudo Start button and start just typing desktop icons.

The Charms bar will appear on the right with the search results. This will bring up the exact same dialog as in Windows 7. Firstly, you can bypass the recycle bin by simply holding down the CTRL key when you delete a file in Windows. Secondly, you can right-click on the recycle bin, choose Properties and configure a couple of options like the size of the recycle bin and whether or not you want to see the delete confirmation dialog.

If you have a small hard drive like an SSD, then reducing the size of the recycle bin can save you quite a bit of space. In response to the question about the recycle bin not showing full- that is an Icon problem.

Go to Desktop Icons screen see article and click on Full Reycle bin from picture and then Change Icon and pick the correct one. You can even download Icons and change it to a theme one. Once the Recycle Bin icon has been deleted, it seems to lose the logic that allows it to update dynamically without refreshing the desktop in response to having contents placed in an empty Bin or having contents deleted from the Bin.

We need not just to restore the icon, but to restore the original behavior associated with it. Any ideas how? Ditto for me on the following question posed by John on May 8.

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