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Recycle bin icon is now a regular folder icon!!

Just noticed on one infrequently used machine at work here that the recycle bin icon (both on desktop and in explorer views) has been replaced with a standard, regular yellow folder icon. Someone else noticed it the other day, but said nothing, but we don't know when it first appeared that way (sometime around Christmas at the earliest?)

Have tried TweakUI to repair -- no effect. Its not that critical, because other than the image, it is the same system folder -- it is not a folder copy or folder shortcut - it is the system folder, with properties menu=drive breakdown, etc. Just a different picture, but still a bit odd to have looking that way; also, is this the sign of some pending systematic problem that will overtake us, etc? If there is a reason it happened, a trigger that may affect other things, this is a good time to seek it out!

Any suggestions?

Thanks

cempasha

an article about it
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q132/6/68.asp
i hope it will be useful

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stevenlewis

do you know how to create a reg file?
open a blank notepad file and copy everything under the *'s into it

***************copy everything under here*********

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ShellFolder]
"Attributes"=hex:40,01,00,20

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}]
@="Recycle Bin"

**********copy everything above here***********

then hit enter twice (to create a couple of blank lines underneath what you have copied (it needs those)

now save it as "recyle.reg"
note the quotes, they are important
then double click on recycle,reg, and import it into the reg

sh0e

im betting on steven :D
we ought to have a gambling section where we can bet our points heh

centerv

rebuild the bin

From MS

Click Start, point to Shutdown, and then click Restart to MS-DOS.
Type CD\, and then press ENTER.
Type CD RECYCLED, and then press ENTER.
Type ATTRIB -r -s -h info2.*, and then press ENTER.
Type DEL INFO2, and then press ENTER. NOTE: This deletes the damaged INFO2 file and creates a new file automatically.
Windows 95: Restart your computer.

When you see the Starting Windows 95 message, press F8, and then on the Startup menu, select Command Prompt Only.

Windows 98: Restart your computer, press and hold down the CTRL key after your computer completes the Power On Self Test (POST), and then on the Startup menu, select Command Prompt Only.NOTE: You can start the computer with the Windows Startup disk if it is available.

At the command prompt, type the following lines, pressing ENTER after each line:
attrib -r -s -h c:\recycled
deltree c:\recycled

NOTE: If the problem occurs on a drive other than C, substitute the appropriate drive letter for drive C in the above commands.

Restart the computer. This re-creates the Recycle Bin.

sh0e

actually i dont think that will necessarily make the folder back to the system folder appearance
that only rebuilds the recycle folder so that the database for recycled files is rebuilt correctly

which reminds me of something:
start button->run...->type command and press enter
at the command prompt(give me the output):
cd \recycled
more desktop.ini
attrib \recycled

should look close to this:
SH RECYCLED C:\RECYCLED

[.ShellClassInfo]
CLSID={645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

if it doesnt type using these at the command prompt
or you can copy/paste it into a file named fix.bat and
then run fix.bat (double click fix.bat icon):
attrib -H -S -R \recycled
attrib -H -S -R \recycled\desktop.ini
echo [.ShellClassInfo]>\recycled\desktop.ini
echo CLSID={645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}>>\recycled\desktop.ini
attrib +H +S \recycled
attrib +H \recycled\desktop.ini

sh0e

actually you know what? centerv comment will probably work

GPrentice00

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A lot of additional ideas to what I tried already, but cempesha's link looks like it may be promising. stevenlewis registry trick looks like something I had encountered a long time ago and was unable to find, so it will be a fallback position.

Some of the other tricks to "recreate" the recycle bin didn't fix the icon; I had found those tricks. They are more significant for a totally lost recycle folder, or one that loses its system behaviours....

I will test this out Wednesday afternoon and post results, hopefully some points as well, by the evening, if I am able to squeeze some time into my schedule, otherwise, thursday morning.

Thanks for the barrage of ideas, though.

Monspot

Didn't my solution work??
It is the most guaranteed one here?
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GPrentice00

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Believe it or not, nothing on the MS site did the trick.
But this simple thing I overlooked before did.

Guess the best solution IS the simple one!

* The actual icon for the recycle bin, in that interface display, was an "unknown file" icon for both empty and full bins, which OBVIOUSLY explains why it looked like a plain folder, right?

Now if there was only a reason that happened that we can identify....

THANKS TO EVERYONE, but points to Monspot

sh0e

eh? wow i didnt see that one coming
it would be my thot that every user would try to do that first but i guess i was wrong :D

Monspot

Thanks for your support sh0e :o))
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