Recycle bin icon no longer works

[Alex McFarlane]

Dear Chums,

The recycle bin icon on my desktop has stopped working. Instead of the glass
filling up whenever I delete something and then emptying when I empty the
recycle bin, the glass remains resolutely empty. If I open the recycle bin
folder the deleted files are there. How do I restore functionality, please?

Regards

Alex McFarlane

 

[Malke]

Dear Chums,

The recycle bin icon on my desktop has stopped working. Instead of the
glass filling up whenever I delete something and then emptying when I
empty the recycle bin, the glass remains resolutely empty. If I open the
recycle bin folder the deleted files are there. How do I restore
functionality, please?

See if either of these fixes by MVP Ramesh does the job:

Recycle Bin icon does not refresh automatically
http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/252/1/Recycle-Bin-icon-does-not-
refresh-automatically.html

How to Fix a Corrupted Recycle Bin in Windows Vista:
http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/how-to-fix-a-corrupted-recycle-bin-in-
windows-vista/

Malke

 

[Alex McFarlane]

Sadly none of the suggested fixes worked.

Any further ideas, please?

AMcF

 

[Malke]

Sadly none of the suggested fixes worked.

Any further ideas, please?

The First Question Of Troubleshooting: If the problem is new, what changed
between the time things worked and the time they didn't?

If the First Question of Troubleshooting can't be satisfactorily answered
(and/or reversing whatever changed doesn't help) and the problem is very
recent (no older than a week), do a System Restore to when things worked.

To run System Restore, go to the Start Orb and in the Start Search box type
"System Restore" without the quotes. System Restore will appear in the
Programs result. Click on it, allow the UAC prompt, and follow the wizard.

Malke

 

[Richard Urban]

Dear Chums,

The recycle bin icon on my desktop has stopped working. Instead of the
glass filling up whenever I delete something and then emptying when I
empty the recycle bin, the glass remains resolutely empty. If I open the
recycle bin folder the deleted files are there. How do I restore
functionality, please?

Regards

Alex McFarlane

See here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968873/en-us