Where Is My Recycle Bin?

[BobH]

For the first time in ages, I needed to look for a deleted email in the Recycle Bin only to discover that I don't have one!!!!

Does Win7 HPE not have a Recycle Bin? If it does have one, how might I have lost the shortcut icon on my desktop? Is there someplace else to look for it? If it still exists, can I create a new shortcut icon for the desktop? If so, how?

Feeling like a bag of hammers today.

[stuck]

Is this page any help?
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/wind ... =windows-7

Ken

[DaveA]

Email does NOT go to the Recycle bin, but to a "Deleted Folder" within your email program.

[BobH]

Now I'm even a bigger sack of hammers!

I followed your instructions, Ken, and viewed the video. I then did as it instructed and found that the Recycle Bin was, indeed, not checked on the Desktop Icon Settings panel; so I checked it and restarted the system. The recycle bin icon is still missing. ????

Dave, I realize that what you are saying is true; however, using Thunderbird, I have no folder in any of my several mailboxes for deleted items. I do have a "Trash" folder in each of them and found the errant email that I sought.

The mystery of the missing Recycle Bin continues.

[HansV]

Right-click an empty part of the desktop.
Select View from the context menu.
Make sure that 'Show desktop icons' in the submenu is 'on' (ticked).

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[Rudi]

Another way of accessing the Recycle bin is though Explorer.
On the View Tab select Navigation Pane
Choose Show All Folders to reveal the Recycle Bin

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[viking33]

Here is my method of choice.
Right click any clear area of the desktop
Click personalize
Click on change desktop icons
Check Recycle bin

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[HansV]

Hi, Bob (Viking),

That's the standard method, but BobH reported "Recycle Bin was, indeed, not checked on the Desktop Icon Settings panel; so I checked it and restarted the system. The recycle bin icon is still missing." So he already tried that method, and it didn't work...

[BobH]

Here is a screenshot after following Viking Bob's directions.

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You can see that the Recycle Bin box is now checked.

I followed Hans' directions and got very similar results (same checked boxes) displayed a bit differently but I could not get a ss because the popups disappear when FastStone Capture is activated and the capture icon pressed.

I have the settings right, I think (as if I could, eh?); but I still do not see the Recycle Bin icon on my desktop.

FWIW: Here is a ss of the first screen presented when I right-click on the desktop and choose Personalize and before choosing Change Desktop Icons.

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I know nothing about themes. Is it possible that my theme is causing the problem? I don't recall having ever chosen a theme, but I can hide my own Easter Eggs nowadays.

[viking33]

OK, Here is a link to MS Windows Seven forums, where there a few other methods suggested including the ones already posted.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/41 ... splay.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[HansV]

No, the theme is not the problem (I see you're still using my winter photo of Leiden! )

If Show Desktop Items is ticked in the View submenu of the desktop right-click menu, yet the Recycle Bin is not visible, it could have been moved off-screen by accident. I you don't mind all your desktop icons being moved, you could right-click the desktop again, and select View > Auto Arrange Icons. Does the Recycle Bin appear?

[viking33]

BobH,
I suppose your themes may be blocking the RB but I use a customized theme
( Webshots) without any interference of the icons.
You could just try one of the other themes like the ugly Windows default, just to make sure.

[BobH]

No, the theme is not the problem (I see you're still using my winter photo of Leiden! )

If Show Desktop Items is ticked in the View submenu of the desktop right-click menu, yet the Recycle Bin is not visible, it could have been moved off-screen by accident. I you don't mind all your desktop icons being moved, you could right-click the desktop again, and select View > Auto Arrange Icons. Does the Recycle Bin appear?

Yes, Hans! I love that photo. I've used it as my wallpaper since you posted it.

Although I'm a bit embarrassed by the clutter, here's a ss after having done the Auto Arrange as suggested. Although I checked the boxes for the Recycle Bin and Control Panel, neither appears.

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I shall follow the links to MS to see if I can learn something there.

[BobH]

SUCCESS!

Following the links Viking Bob gave me, I read the page about displaying or hiding the Recycle Bin shortcut. In Windows Explorer, when selecting the Desktop folder (?) I could see the Recycle Bin and Control Panel items. I simply selected each in turn and right clicked and chose to create a shortcut and they both now appear on my desktop.

I think I might have discovered how they went missing too. Somewhere in the musty recesses of my battered brain, I recall having once had the Recycle Bin and the Control Panel shortcuts in my System Tray. As the tray became too crowded to display all the shortcuts I'd placed there, I began to delete the ones used least often. Because I rarely ever have need of the RB, it probably went a long time ago. CP's shortcut was probably just collateral damage during one of my manic episodes.

Thank you all, Gentlemen!

all 'round!

[HansV]

Glad it's been solved.

By the way, if you want to capture a screenshot of a dropdown menu or a right-click menu with FastStone Capture, you can press the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+PrintScreen.

[BobH]

Glad it's been solved.

By the way, if you want to capture a screenshot of a dropdown menu or a right-click menu with FastStone Capture, you can press the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+PrintScreen.

Thanks for the tip, Hans!

How did anyone so young get to be so smart as you?

[HansV]

Young? I'm 62...

[BobH]

I was already courting girls when you were born, young fella!

[viking33]

Good show, BobH!
That's a lot of icons. Sometimes you can't see the desktop for the icons, or the forest for the trees!
Glad you had success.

[Rudi]

Hi Bob,

Glad your RB icon is resolved, but, does your RB icon have a shortcut arrow on it, since you used the command "Create a shortcut" to send the icon to your desktop?
( I hope I'm not throwing a spanner in the works here...)