Accidentally deleted wastebasket vista

You can do a registry mod and disable the incredibly stupid 'Delete' button on the Vista recycle can. You can change the name from 'Guy's Search' if you like when you open the file in notepad. This replaces the 'Delete' recycle bin button with a search button, which is a lot more useful. Note: If the. You mean you can actually get rid of that useless icon from your desktop?

Maybe I'll have to give Vista a try Contact Us VideoHelp Top. All times are GMT The time now is All rights reserved. Latest tool updates. Video Thumbnails Make XMedia Recode 3. Plex Media Server 1. AnyStream 1. Advanced Youtube Clie When I tried to put it back on the desktop by dragging it from the Explorer, it does not appear correctly.

It appears full when it is not and empty when it is not. 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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All comments containing links and certain keywords will be moderated before publication. And yet, I leave it enabled. Subscribe to Confident Computing! Less frustration and more confidence, solutions, answers, and tips in your inbox every week. I have read the article and more, but I still want to know why I lost ALL the contents of my recycle bin not just the older ones — it just took everything old and recent and left only.

Hundreds of photos had been deleted from My Pictures much later than those. My question is why did it take all the deletions of photos and documents and not just take the oldest to make room for the newest?

And yet leave backups of email folders which were deleted long before the photos? The reason I am bothered is because I was moving photos out of My Pictures onto another computer to sort them before transferring to an online site.

Being careful not to duplicate I deleted some of them from My Pictures as I did this — but then I planned on going back to the photos to get the captions off. I feel it should have taken the e-mail backups and left many of the recent documents. Comments violating those rules will be removed. Comments that don't add value will be removed, including off-topic or content-free comments, or comments that look even a little bit like spam. All comments containing links and certain keywords will be moderated before publication.

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