recycle bin

Hello, and sorry to have a first post asking for help. I did a forced shutdown when my PC seemed to be incredibly slow then hanging while logging off. On restarting, I got 'disk read error' repeatedly, after the BIOS boot screen but before any of Windows. I used my Windows install CD to run...

Fixes an issue in which recycled files are deleted permanently if you delete files from a DFS link in a network environment on a client computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 after you redirect the Recycle Bin to the DFS link. More...

Hi All I appear to have an issue with Offline files. I have a redirected Start Menu and Desktop so that users get the same interface as if they were online at work. This is an AD domain environment using GPO for all settings detailed below. Before I try the below error testing, you should...

Hello, I have these folders in my C:/, are the system created/needed or? $Recycle.Bin Boot Recovery Thanks.

Quick Instructions to Restore your lost Recycle Bin desktop icon; 1. Right click the Windows 7 Desktop 2. Click on Personalize Link Removed 3. Select: 'Change desktop icons' Link Removed 4. At the Desktop Icon Settings, click the box next to: 'Recycle Bin'. Link Removed 5. You have now...

Link Removed I've used disc analyze and it shows 4 tmp files that are 4gb in size and they are in C:\$Recycle.Bin\ and I would like to know what are they and if necessary how can I erase them bay the way my computer feels sluggish and my internet traffic is huge (it shouldn't be) so I was...

Hello, Have Win7 Ultimate X64. I've changed the desktop icons for the Recycle bin both empty and full. The icon will not refresh without pushing F5 Any Ideas on how to make it automatic? Thanks

I was doing a virus scan and saw there are like 20,000 files located inside the C:\$Recycle.Bin folder that were being scanned. I went to the folder to delete these files and there are no files to be found. Where is all this crap located and how do I wipe it out permanently?

This is getting to be a real PITA. I have a bunch of shortcuts on my desktop for applications that I use on a daily basis. (No I don't like pinning. Much prefer my Quick Launch.) I also have a bunch of shortcuts for some of the games that come with Win7 on the desktop. (Solitaire, Chess...

is there a way to see the size of ALL the items in the recycle bin? i can see the size of EACH item in the bottom but NOT ALL. win7 64 ULTIMATE

I have windows 7 home premium and i noticed that my recycle bin icon when filled would be blank then i looked at my control panel and it was blank it would open but there are no icons i was just wondering if i should use the disk and repair it Thanks in advance

I have sort of a weird problem. I was clearing out my Temp folder in my AppData folder and I kind of got carried away. Before I knew it, I had over 60,000 objects in my recycle bin. I have a decent computer with 4 GB of RAM, but every time I try to recycle, windows explorer freezes. Ive tried...

Hello there. I wanted to clean up my desktop a bit so I deleted multiple shortcuts from my desktop because I had some icons already in Start Menu. So, I deleted the shortcuts that were on desktop and Start Menu and emptied my Recycle Bin so I cannot retrieve them. And now the icons on Start...

Earlier today, I tried to uninstall Office 2007 Trial (which had expired) from my Gateway PC. I have already installed Office 2010 Trial, so both programs are on the PC right now. I could not get the program to uninstall in the Control Panel, so I decided to leave the Office 2007 program on the...

Greetings .... :-| ________ Ok here we go.... Tried to download a... diving world record video from youtube ...with "flashgot" firefox plugin. Flashgot downloaded the video in boken incomplete parts (x2) to my desktop. Upon discovering this, I tried to delete the incomplete parts to the...

Hi, I downloaded a Zip file from the internet and extracted the content. I no longer needed either so I grabbed both the Zip file and the content file and dragged them to the recycle bin. It asked me if I really wanted to delete both files I said yes and apparently deleted the files. But...

Can someone tell me whether all these are in use, and/or what they're all doing? On my system disk, using Windows 7 Professional, I have: $Recycle.Bin Recovery RECYCLER System Volume Information All my other partitions have all the above EXCEPT "Recovery", so I presume that one must be used...

Greg Shultz describes how to put the Recycle Bin on the taskbar in the lower right corner adjacent to the notification area in Windows 7. More...

Somehow I got the HomeGroup icon to show on the desktop and now I want to know how to remove it as I have already tried moving it to the recycle, but it didn't do anything help!

Hi I've been clearing out some clutter from my PC (as I do on a regular basis), when I accidentally deleted the 'Recycle Bin' icon from the desktop. I can't do a restore because they've all been cleared out and I've run 'Registry Repair Wizard' to clean up the registry. If I go into the...