Restore Recycle Bin

[Nestor]

My recycle bin disappeared....is there a way to restore it?

anyway where is it held at actaully?

[reghakr]

Many possibilities. Do you use TweakUI, orany other "tweaking" or "security" progam?

Do you use Noton Utilities?

Backup the registry and/or export the following keys:
go to Start>Run, type regedit. Navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\explorer\Desktop\NameSpace
make sure there is a key below named {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} and the (default) value says Recycle Bin.

Here's another option:

Oen File Manager by going to Start>Run, tying winfile. On the menu, choose View>By File Type..., and make sure Show Hidden/System Files is checked. Go to c:\recycled and see if there is a desktop.ini file and the contents are as shown below. If not, create a new one.

Open notepad and paste this into it:
[.ShellClassInfo]
CLSID={645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

Save the file as desktop.ini on your desktop.
You need to change the drop-down arrow to show All Files (*.*) to have it save correctly.

No go to Start>Programs>MS-DOS prompt, type cd desktop, then type attrib desktop.ini +h, then type exit.
Go to Start>Run, type winfile. In File Manager, go to View>By File Type, make sure Show Hidden/Sytem files is checked. Now navigate to c:\windows\desktop in File Manager, highlight desktop.ini, click File>Move and type c:\recycled.

reghakr