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Accidentally deleting an important file can feel like a digital catastrophe. Fortunately, Windows 11 offers built-in recovery options that can help you retrieve your lost documents without the need for expensive data recovery services. In this article, we break down the step-by-step guide to...

Accidentally deleting files is a common mishap that can lead to a miniature panic attack. Whether you're a writer who lost a crucial draft or just someone who temporarily misplaced an important document, fear not—Windows 11 has your back! Here’s a detailed guide on how to recover files using...

Accidentally deleting an essential file can feel like a personal catastrophe. Luckily, Windows 11 comes equipped with built-in tools that help you swiftly recover lost documents, photos, and more. In this in-depth guide, we’ll walk you through how to recover files in Windows 11 step by step...

You’re on a mission to declutter your Windows PC, but disaster strikes—you can’t find your trusty Recycle Bin icon. Where could it have vanished? Has it been stolen by a rogue Windows update, or is it just hiding in plain sight? Whatever the case, Microsoft does give us a playbook for resolving...

I was getting the error "The Recycle Bin on D:\ is corrupted" (external). Then, when I unplugged it and plugged it back in, it was unlabelled, and I can't access the files anymore. The error message says, "This volume does not contain a recognized file system." Yes, the disk shows good health on...

I no longer have a recycle bin. All references say to go to Personalization to turn it back on. However, that is only available in Activated versions of Windows 10. Has Microsoft intentionally removed the Recycle Bin from NON ACTIVATED copies of Windows 10? Are there alternatives? Any way to...

Hi again, Well, I'm really liking Windows 11, I like how if you have two windows open, and you click on the one not showing it minimizes the one on top and expands the other, instead of putting the smaller one on top of the larger one maybe Windows 10 would do that two, but it wasn't on my...

New problem - whenever I right click on a photo on my desktop, no deal. Have to drag it to the recycle bin. Thoughts?

I have two Western Digital externals I use for frequent back-ups. I noticed recently, they both have a folder named $RECYCLE.BIN in caps as shown. Last time I shifted some files around and emptied folders, I went to remove (eject) the drives, using the icon in "show hidden icons" on the taskbar...

I turned on my Windows 10 PC and noticed all my desktop icons were gone, with the exception of Recycle Bin. The Search box is also gone. The toolbar icons appear intact. Never seen that happen before. Any idea what may have happened, and is it possible to revert the situation back to normal...

Dear All, I have an issue with windows 10 .I have upgraded to windows 10 from windows 8.1. After Upgraded only im facing these kind of issue .Details : When i right click any of the file or if i copy - paste any of the file - if i double click any of the installed app icons ,the file...

Running Outlook 2016 under Windows 10. Everything was running smoothly when all of a sudden a couple of weeks ago, we started getting the error message "554 5.2.2 mailbox full" and we could not send any messages. We discovered that although the system implied that the recipient had the full...

Hello, Forum Mates. Since I updated my Windows 10 files the other day, a large amount of music files, which I knew were somehow displaced, but which didn't harm my home screen, started to populate what should be my home screen. I have tried to delete them, but the recycle basket disappeared...

Hi all, I am really hoping you can help me as I am so close to ripping my hair out! I have searched on google and my issue seems to be a little different to others... I am getting these four errors messages below: The Recycle Bin on \\SERVER\~ is corrupt. Do you want to empty the recycle bin...

Windows 10 Enterprise 2016 I tried to restore to a previously 'created restore point' but it failed (System restore error 0x80070091). Because I had an Audio Driver issue... Meantime I fixed my audio card driver problem (reinstall)... But immediately two irrelevant things are screwed up now...

Surface Pro-specific glaring issues: - horrible backlight bleed on 99% of devices (as deduced from accounts of users all over the world). Not even gonna elaborate on that, there's a separate 22-pages thread about it on MS forums. - auto-hibernation issue - same. - power drain in sleep...

Is it possible to change the default view of the Windows 10 Recycle Bin when it opens? I figure there’s settings in the Registry somewhere. I would like the default to be view by details, sorted by date, descending.

When one re-installs windows7 from scratch, what part of the hard drive does it write itself on? Will it overwrite old data, so to speak starting from the first place on the hard drive or will it rather first write in between un-used space? Would it make a difference if the old data had bean...

Here's my problem, when I delete anything it goes into the recycle bin and the icon changes from "empty" to "full", and I would simply right click on the recycle bin icon and select "empty recycle bin" but since a few days ago whenever I delete something it goes into the recycle bin, but the...

I want to delete two massive videos (155 GB combined), but when I press delete, it starts the usual 'Preparing to move items to the Recycle Bin' procedure, and during that, it gets stuck on the 'Discovering items' part. Please help. Thanks in advance.