recycle bin

:mad:Hi, I think my last post was in the incorrect location..Sorrry if I'm double posting. Drew, Thanks for the Quick Launch, working fine. However, I made a "Short Cut" icon from an excel file from a different hard drive and copied it to the desktop. Then I dragged it to the new "Quick...

Hi there, I've been trying to delete this folder and whenever I try to delete, the recycle notification shows up and for the last 20 minutes. The notification says - "Preparing to recycle" and hasn't changed for the last 20 minutes. Also in task manager, my explorer.exe is always around 50 -90...

Are there any apps that can provide a 'Shred' option to the right-click context menu? I'm currently using 7600 RTM build of Windows. I was using Tune-Up Utilities for this and it was very useful as I could switch deletion methods on the fly depending on how sensitive the file that I wanted to...

I noticed a problem on my Win7 desktop about a week or two ago. When I delete files or shortcuts, the icon remains on the desktop until I do a manual refresh. The Recycle Bin icon changes to full (if it was empty), and the file itself is actually no longer available on the desktop, but the...

All my desktop icons are missing on x64 RC, if i go to Computer/Desktop I can see that there should be several on there but when I return to desktop none of them are displayed. I have gone to Personalization/Change Desktop Icons and turned on Recycle Bin etc but still nothing. Anyone any ideas?

Hey people. A really irritating problem. I can't see the folder total size in windows explorer. When you stand in any folder and select all, the status bar only shows you the number of files. You can see the in the details pane the actual size of each file, but you cannot see the...

The Tweaking with Vishal web site writes up a quick registry hack that adds Recycle Bin, Network Connections, Admin Tools, or even Search to your My Computer window. The process works by adding a single key to the registry for each icon you want to add to the My Computer window. To add the...

This is going to be rather complicated to explain but here goes my best attempt... I have the OS installed on the C drive. I have all of the documents mapped to a seperate but still internal E drive. I have done this with both XP and Vista and there have been no problems. Windows 7 linked it...

Hey guys got a quick question. In xp, when i opened the recycle bin, it would display the totaly size of all the items in there, who can i enble this in windows 7?

I was doing some hard drive clean up since some of my older saved apps won't run on 7. After deleting around 4gb worth of data, I looked in the recycling bin and...it only showed about 8 things in it. When i went to empty it, i told it to show more detail and it was cleaning out everything I had...

well, when i started my computer today, my desktop was not there... odd? yeah, i tried dragging some things to it and they moved from the previous folder, but didnt show up on the desktop, i even created a new text document, with no problems. but i cannot see my desktop my recycle bin or...

Basically, I must have done something to mess up Windows Explorer. On the left I show Favorites with a Star on its left and in the right pane it shows the folders that are Favorites. It used to show those folders Under Favorites in the left pane. The next item is Desktop and it contains...

ive been trying to make some themes have all the walls in folders ready and icons for "my computer" and "recycle bin" have chosen a different sound scheme for each theme and i thought i was ready to go but ive come across a problem with the recycle bin icons even though ive replaced the full and...

Don't know how this happened but I deleted a coulple of files from my Documents Folder (Documents, Music, Pictures, Recently changed, etc.), and the whole Folder ended up in the Recycle Bin. I now have an exact duplication of my whole folder in the Recycle Bin. If I delete a file from the copy...

Right click your desktop > Personalize > Change Desktop Icons. Simply check off what you want removed from you're desktop. No need to install hacks or mess with that lame registry.

I accidentally dragged my recycle bin and a libraries folder to my start menu and there is no option to delete or un pin it. How do I get them off my start menu?

actually I want to hide everything on the desktop. BUT using ">right click on desktop>View>Show Desktop Icons (deselect)" to do that is tedious. So if someone can point me in the way to creating a macro or tweak my registry for these two similar but kinda different tasks I would be very...

I see Microsoft finally got rid of the delete the trashcan in the right click of the Recycle Bin. Thank you Microsoft for this, it was not a good thing to have that there in the first place.

I am running Vista Home Ultimate. I have had a number of files, mostly jpegs disappear. They are not in the Recycle bin and I did not deliberately delete them. The only thing I have done that is unusual is to clear out the "Recent Items" list. Could that have deleted the files?

Hello, I am new to windows vista and i just got a new laptop which came with vista home edition installed, now i set the laptop up the way i want it, then i deleted a few file's i no longer required but when i went to empty the recycle bin i...