recycle bin

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...

I can't delete a huge 80 megabyte file from my desktop. It hangs up and says preparing to recycle but never does. I left the computer on all night and in the morning it was still "preparing to recycle" the file. I tried moving it to another folder but a window comes up saying thats it's "moving"...

Hi forum, I hope you're having a good day. Please help me with this situation of mine. Summary: The system requires chkdsk for the 2 mechanical hard drives in RAID-1. The disk check has returned lots of "Replacing invalid security id with default security id for file" ... Why is this...

Hello. Just got a new computer with Windows 7 on it. Love it so far, but one small problem. I like to have my "Recycle Bin" right up next to my task bar, in the lower right hand side. I always had it there in XP, but in 7 it won't go any closer then about an inch & a half above my task bar. Is...

the bar of icons on the top of the home screen disapperared I dont know how to bring it back. It had the recycle bin, the multimedia icons (music, games, photos, etc.), internet, security. I want to know how to get it back on my home screen because it was very helpful and useful. please tell...

Alright, I've searched these forums and a number of others and haven't found a solution to my exact problem. Basically what is happening to me is my C Drive where Windows 7 is installed is only saying I have 28gb's of harddrive space left (on a 100gb partition) yet when I've run treeview it...

Hello...I got home to find my PC 's doc's and settings as a shortcut. also I find locks on recycle bin , MSO cache and in users folder all users, default user and Server (my computer name ***not a server or running server OS** running win 7 ultimate)system runns:) but,:confused: but missing all...

Hi I just bought a laptop with windows 7. it has two versions of IE: 32 and 64 bit what i did was this: on the start menu i could see the two original internet explorer icons, so i took the 64 bit icon and dragged it to the desktop to create a shortcut and the icon disappeared from the start...

Each time I connect an external USB hard drive, Windows creates these two directories. Is there a way to tell Windows 7 not to do so?

Hi there, for some reason my desktop items have gone, i have tried right clicking desktop then going to personalization then the desktop icon settings and I have made sure that computer and recycle bin is ticked but it makes no difference. I have also looked at my desktop folder via explorer and...

Hello. I have some problems that appeared 3 days ago . My computer suddenly restarted and several surprises shown up after it successfully started. 1.) No programs ran on start up . ( rocket dock, antivirus and not even gadgets ) 2.) Link Removed due to 404 Error 3.) When Im trying to...

I have been having this problem with my Windows 7 x64 Professional install. Whenever I delete a file to the recycling bin, and then drag it out (to the desktop usually) to restore, the file is renamed to what it would be like in the temp folder. Is this the expected action of Windows 7 and...

Is there a way to tell the total size of all files in the recycle bin? It seems in XP there was a info taskbar on the bottom in XP, but I have not been able to find it in W7. BTW, I am using W7-64.