Show My Computer & Recycle Bin in Start menu

[Guest]

I have hidden all the icons from my Desktop.

How do I show My Computer and Recycle Bin in the Start menu and not the
Desktop??

 

[Sharon F]

I have hidden all the icons from my Desktop.

How do I show My Computer and Recycle Bin in the Start menu and not the
Desktop??

For My Computer, right click the Start button. On the screen that appears
(Taskbar/Start Menu Properties with focus on Start Menu page), click the
Customize button. Add a check next to My Computer and click OK.

For the Recycle Bin, open Windows Explorer in 2 pane view so that you can
see the Recycle Bin in the left column. Right click drag the icon to the
desktop and select Create Shortcut from the menu appears when you drop the
dragged icon on your desktop. Once the shortcut has been created, drag it
to the start button and drop it. Recycle Bin will now appear in the upper
left column of the XP style start panel. If using the classic style menu,
the shortcut will appear on the first start menu popup as well.

 

[Guest]

Thanks, Sharon, for the quick response.

When I looked into Taskbar/Start Menu Properties and opened Customize, there
is no My Computer box to check.

Also, while in Windows Explore (showing the entire computer folders), in
Pane 2 there is only a RECYCLER folder which shows the the recycle folders
for each drive. There is no Recycle Bin folder.

 

[Sharon F]

Thanks, Sharon, for the quick response.

When I looked into Taskbar/Start Menu Properties and opened Customize, there
is no My Computer box to check.

I see it as an option for the XP Style start menu but not for the Classic
style.

Also, while in Windows Explore (showing the entire computer folders), in
Pane 2 there is only a RECYCLER folder which shows the the recycle folders
for each drive. There is no Recycle Bin folder.

Don't look in the drive folders for a Recycle Bin icon. That location will
only show the Recycled or Recycler folder (which one depends on your file
system). You should see Recycle Bin one level up - the same level as the
individual drive icons, My Documents, My Computer and (if present) My
Network Places.

 

[Guest]

Again, Sharon, thanks for your time.

With regard to the My Computer icon; yes, I do use the Classic style. I am
able to drag the My Computer Icon while in highest level of Explore into the
Task Bar/Start Menu, and it works fine. But the icon disappears each time I
run a Clean Cache 3.0 program.

With regard to the Recycle Bin folder, it does not appear anywhere in
Explore, no matter what level I look at. All I see is the RECYCLER folder.
Could have I hidden it with a previous Registry change?

Season Greetings,

Randy

 

[Sharon F]

Again, Sharon, thanks for your time.

With regard to the My Computer icon; yes, I do use the Classic style. I am
able to drag the My Computer Icon while in highest level of Explore into the
Task Bar/Start Menu, and it works fine. But the icon disappears each time I
run a Clean Cache 3.0 program.

With regard to the Recycle Bin folder, it does not appear anywhere in
Explore, no matter what level I look at. All I see is the RECYCLER folder.
Could have I hidden it with a previous Registry change?

Hi, again. The first thing that popped into mind after reading your first
paragraph was "then don't do that." Hard to keep something that a
program insists on removing? Any place in that program's settings to define
exclusions?

For the second: I don't know what registry changes you did but yes, a
registry change could do that. If I collapse everything except the main
entries under My Desktop, I see My Documents, My Computer, My Network
Places, Recycle Bin.... Wait a minute. I *do* keep the Recycle Bin on my
desktop and you said that you've hidden it. Perhaps that is why it is not
appearing for you? You could try putting it back on the desktop. Create
your shortcut. Then hiding it again. Might work, might not.

Also, MVP Kelly Theriot has some tweaks for the Recycle Bin on her website.
The third one I've listed may be particularly useful to you at the moment.
It might also require reversing what you did before and then applying her
tweak but don't know for sure.

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Replace/Repair Recycle Bin
Line 64: right hand side

Rename/Remove Recycle Bin
Line 115: left hand side

Hide Recycle bin on Desktop - Not from Explorer
Line 199: right hand side

It sounds like you are accustomed to tweaking Windows so will leave out the
"protect your backside" talk. But have included the Replace/Repair tweak of
hers "just in case."

Another thought:

Possible alternative that may keep the shortcuts for these items in place:
Put them in your Quick Launch bar. They would still be handy and only one
click away instead of two. Or at least use QL (or another location) to
store copies of these so that you don't have to recreate them every time
they disappear?

 

[Guest]

Sharon;

I was able to restore the My Computer icon on my desktop by changing the
Desktop properties to show the My Computer icon. Then I created a shortcut on
my QL (as you suggested) before removing it again from the Desktop. This will
work fine.

With regard to the Recycle Bin icon, I have tried every tweak I
know...Kelly's Corner, Ramesh's Site, and everything in MS article ID 810869
(Recycle Bin Does Not Appear on Desktop) with no success. It is as if the
Recycle Bin icon no longer exisits in my computer. Strange.

Well anyway, I appreciate your help. It is really a minor problem which
tweaked my interest, but I can live with it.

Take care...

 

[Guest]

I did it! I went to Tweak UI and I did a repair icon. The program took a
while, but the Recycle Bin now appears in my Start menu. Thanks,. again.

 

[Sharon F]

I did it! I went to Tweak UI and I did a repair icon. The program took a
while, but the Recycle Bin now appears in my Start menu. Thanks,. again.

WTG! Good work on you part. Persistence paid off. Glad to hear that you
have this all sorted now and that it's working the way that you need it to.