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    External hard drive suddenly "unlabeled volume 1"

    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...
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    Windows 10 Recycle Bin on NON ACTIVATED Windows 10

    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...
  3. Windows 11 Update on Windows 11, and a question!

    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...
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    Windows 10 desktop right click no deal

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

    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...
  6. Windows 10 Desktop icons disappeared

    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...
  7. Windows 10 Help plzzzzz

    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...
  8. Windows 10 Outlook 2016 Mailbox Full?

    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...
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    Windows 10 Music Files Loaded onto the Home Screen (100's of files!)

    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...
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    Windows 7 The Recycle Bin on ... is corrupt.

    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...
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    Windows 10 Dedicated backup drive won't let anthing to be written to or deleted from it for no good reason!

    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...
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    Love-hate relationship with MS

    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...
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    Windows 10 Recycle Bin default view

    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.
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    Windows 7 Understanding Windows 7 Reinstallation: Hard Drive Overwrite and Data Recovery Chances

    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...
  15. Windows 10 Recycle Bin

    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...
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    Windows 10 Stuck in 'Discovering Files'

    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.
  17. Windows 10 wHERE HAS MY DISK SPACE GONE ?

    Hi, I seen a few posts relating to disks with less space than anticipated - but think I have gone through the suggestions. I have an older ACER X1301 which has been upgraded to W8 then W10 and with an SSD instead of the HDD. When I installed the SSD I thought I had a 'C' drive with approx...
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    Windows 10 How to make SD card act like perm hard disk in Win 10 Pro?

    I'm setting up a Toshiba Encore 2 Tablet for a family member. I've already updated it to run 32-bit Windows 10 Pro 1607. It came with a very small amount of internal EMCC storage (24 GB available, NTFS formatted), but fortunately it also includes a MicroSD slot, which I've populated as a 128 GB...
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    Windows 7 Why are there 4 (!) RECYCLE BINs on my partition? Outer and Inner RecycleBins?

    After having disabled the option "protect my system folders) I had a look on my folders and found 4 (!) different RECYCLE BINs on my second, non-system partition D: Have a look at the attached snapshot of my WinExplorer view and the corresponding listing with "dir /a". Why are there so many...
  20. Windows 10 Recuva lost files?

    Hi This isn't really a request for help, more curiosity. This morning I deleted a folder that I though was out of date and I emptied the recycle bin. Only after that did I realize that there was another folder in it that I did need. I've never used Recuva but I downloaded it and tried to see...