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Where's the Recycle Bin?

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by kathi scott

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On this system, there's no Recycle Bin icon and no Recycle Bin in C:\. A "Find" revealed only various recycle icon images. Norton is installed, but can't locate a folder to shortcut on Desktop.

Thanks for your help!!!

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by r. a. caluste

It could be hidden. Download a tweak utility (try tweakui in download.com) and make your recycle bin visible.

by zlitocook

The Recycle Bin is in the registry. From there you can delete it, change the name, and look of it. The person who uses that computer may have down loaded tweak ui to change the look of the computer or it could have a virus that hides and changes therecycle bin so it is harder to remove the virus. First check the add/remove section of device manager to see if any new programs were installed. Then look at the control panel to see if tweak ui is installed. If not start looking for a virus or trojan.

by deputac

you may have to change the settings on your folders and allow yourself to see hidden files (my recycle bin was hidden in explorer).

if its still not there (as was my problem), you have to make some changes to your registry, delete the recycle binand let windows re-install it upon boot up (do a search of this website to find articles detailing the process, they were very helpful to me)

word of advice, when installing norton systemworks (especially on Win98), don't allow it to do anything with your recycle bin (change this in its option settings), i have had nothing but trouble with that part of the program.

by kathi scott

I didn't know where to find it - the recycle bin - but found information on it and did the re-install and found it.
Thanks for your help.

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