Hi G. Leonard - You might try this .reg fix from Kelly's site, here:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
Replace/Repair the Recycle Bin in Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/restorerecyclebin.reg
Although it says XP, this edit will work fine in Win2k. BE SURE to back up
your Registry before using this edit, preferably with ERDNT/ERUNT, as
follows:
Get Erunt here for all NT-based computers including XP:
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/index.htm I've set it up to
take a scheduled backup each night at 12:01AM on a weekly round-robin basis,
and a Monthly on the 1st of each month. See here for how to set that up:
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/erunt.txt, and for some
useful information about this subject
This program is one of the best things around - saved my butt on many
occasions, and will also run very nicely from a DOS prompt (in case you've
done something that won't let you boot any more and need to revert to a
previous Registry) IF you're FAT32 OR have a DOS startup disk with NTFS
write drivers in an NTFS system. (There is also a way using the Recovery
Console to get back to being "bootable" even without separate DOS write NTFS
drivers, after which you can do a normal restore.) (BTW, it also includes a
Registry defragger program). Free, and very, very highly recommended.
FYI, quoting from the above document:
Note: The "Export registry" function in Regedit is USELESS (!) to make a
complete backup of the registry. Neither does it export the whole registry
(for example, no information from the "SECURITY" hive is saved), nor can the
exported file be used later to replace the current registry with the old
one. Instead, if you re-import the file, it is merged with the current
registry, leaving you with an absolute mess of old and new registry keys.
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Please respond in the same thread.
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP
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