recycle bin

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...

Is there some voodoo I need to make the windows in vista stay the same size and be in the same position? My computer seems to stick ok, but control panel, recycle bin, etc, always seems to go back to a small little window.

My mother got the book on Vista, even with that, the whole computer is disgraceful. She was just trying to do something simple, the arguement of Vista kept on saying, You can't do that.. When she tried using Nero a window appear in full screen with warning and shutted her computer down. When she...

I was deleting some things and when i went to empty the recycle bin i deleted it on accident. How can i get it back??

sorry for not registering but i thought id help a few beta testers out being one my self and using a nvidia gforce 6800ultra you can use the older 77,xx drivers available here , please note that using these drivers disables the glass effect, they are better than the alpha drivers from the...