Here's a good one, No recycle bin on desktop?

[Imageman]

We had power outages yesterday (over 9" of rain in 10 hours) so I shut
everything down and went to bed. Started up this morning and no recycle bin
on the desktop. I looked in the control panel, don't see a way to reactivate
it - Help appreciated - IM

 

[Peter]

Don't worry it's still around, only hidden. Right-click an empty space on
your desktop and select Personalize, then select Change Desktop Icons at far
upper left. Check the Recycle Bin item.

 

[Imageman]

Thanks Peter, works fine now!

Don't worry it's still around, only hidden. Right-click an empty space on
your desktop and select Personalize, then select Change Desktop Icons at
far upper left. Check the Recycle Bin item.

 

[Peter]

It's so easy to delete it.

 

[Alan Biddle]

I was doing something the other day and noticed the recycle bin was
missing. It turned out that it was hidden under another icon. Didn't
know you could do that.

 

[Peter]

Well that's a new one on me!

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

From Ramesh Srinivasan (MVP)
Right-click on the Desktop, click Personalize, and in the left pane, click
Change desktop icons. In the Desktop Icon Settings dialog, enable the
Recycle Bin checkbox. Click OK. See also:

How to restore the Recycle bin icon that has been accidentally deleted:
http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/141/1/

How to hide the "Delete" command from Recycle Bin context menu in Windows
Vista:
http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/142/1/

 

[Peter]

The Hide/Unhide reg files are very useful, thanks Andre.