recycle bin

Ever wanted a recycle bin in your taskbar? Like Mac OS X? Well here is the clearest tutorial I can give you. Step 1 : Unlock taskbar if not locked. Step 2 : Make a new folder where ever you want. (I put mine under C) Step 3 : Name the folder something that you can remember. (I put mine to...

I just transferred my system from Win7 to Win10, and everything came across nicely. File Explorer shows the desktop with 28 items, but they aren't showing on the screen. The only thing on the screen is the Recycle bin. What did I miss?

Assume I have an external hard disk with one (backup) partition which is currently mounted as drive Q:\ Now I right-click on the Recycle Bin icon on my desktop, then select Properties--->Drive Q: and enable "Don't move files to the recycleBin. Remoive files immediately when deleted" Much to...

How to remove OneDrive in Desktop trees folder while I'm turning it on or show all folders ? Even though I have deleted several times and make don't appear it into notification area too while I'm assigning as a toolbar of desktop. And how to create a shortcut of Quick Access with sub items menu...

There are four desktop icons including the Start Menu (open) that will not move, do not function, I ran a scan, I believe it was scannow and that shows file corrupt I am able to use the laptop but these icons need to go, I created another Recycle Bin that functions and I am able to open...

I have Win 7 Pro 64bit installed on a SSD 250GB along with my Programs and Data on a second SATA Hard Drive. Recently when I looked at my C: SSD from My Computer, I noticed the Used Space Bar was Red and I only had a small value of Free Space left (13GB). I used CCleaner to clean up Temporary...

Hi guys. I was wondering if anyone could explain something weird I found today. I went to my recycle bin and found some files in there that while I have no idea what they are for, I have a feeling they are not supposed to be there. I'm using windows 10 64 bit btw. These are the files in there...

Hello, When I double click the recycle bin, it is opened by Windows Media Centre. There I cannot get a proper list and delete folders or empty it. Why can I not open it with Windows explorer, like anything else and then just delete things? Please advise. Thanks, Rob

Dear All, I have been searching a solution for this strange issue for long. I'm an IT Admin in a windows domain where few PCs are affected with this issue. When users delete files, it gets deleted permanently and do not go to Recycle Bin. Users do get alert that file will be deleted...

In Windows 7, how can I open and delete from my trash, to free drive space? Will I need to defragment?

PLEASE HELP!!! MY FRIENDS TRICKED ME INTO DELETING SYSTEM32 AND I CANT FIND IT IN THE RECYCLE BIN AND IT SAYS MY RECYCLE BIN IS EMPTY :*(

OK, I firmly believe that the Windows Recycle Bin icons are fuggly. So, I want to change them. I've done it in the past with XP. I've also done it on this machine (Windows 8.1). Someone elsewhere said that I'd have to build a .dll file. What? Not the way I've done it before (both XP and 8). I...

Hello again, No matter which undelete programme I try, not one of them will ever find a deleted file. I copy a file to a directory on C: or D:, delete it and then empty the Recycle Bin. Whatever application I care to use, the file, which is very unlikely to have been overwritten, can not...

Dear everyone, I've tried to explain my problem as good as I could, please do not be afraid of asking for more informations :) I hope you guys can somehow help me out. TLDR My external harddrive randomly removes files after installing new motherboard + processor. Some of the files can be...

We have in place Microsoft System Center 2012 which houses our imaging server. We have one 'gold' standard image that we use for all of our devices. When migrating to Windows 7 32-bit, we discovered that the computer when first booting up after imaging that users have issues with double...

HAPPENED TODAY. I haven't switched the laptop off since this happened (in case that helps find it!!). I was working on a Doc and decided to put it into a different folder, which I did. I also happened to empty the Recycle Bin. So the original was deleted! When I went to work again on the...

I've got several copies of a Word file in the recycle bin and want to restore one of them. But when I click restore it disappears from the bin but doesn't seem to make an appearance anywhere else on the computer. What's up?

Hi, I use windows 7 64bit. I want to add "xdelete" to context menu of windows explorer. What is xdelete? Its function is exactly the same as preexisting delete menu, So that if I select some files or folders and click them with right mouse button and press X, it will say "are you sure you want...

No idea what I did, all of a sudden I have a Recent Places shortcut on my desktop and I am unable to delete because right click at it does not provide Delete option. I tried to drag/drop the shortcut to Recycle Bin, wouldn't take it. I even "removed" Recent Places from under Favorites folder...

this is related to my last thread windowsforum.com/threads/file-explorer-keeps-crashing-on-certain-folders.196557/ I copied one of the files so I could see what was on it and well it couldn't be emptied from the recycle bin however I copied another file, deleted that one and emptied the recycle...