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How do you restore a recycle bin deleted from a Terminal Services Session?

Hi Experts,

I have a user who has accidentally deleted the recycle bin off her Terminal Services Remote Desktop Session.

After a brief Google search thinking the solution would be an obvious and simple one I haven't been able to find an answer. I understand you can choose whether or not to display the recycle bin by selecting a check box under Control Panel\Personalization\Change Desktop Icons but this seems to have no affect. I cannot access it logging on as the particular user as they don't have access rights and making the change on the administrator account has no effect on the other independent user accounts. Unless maybe I am missing something.

Any direction you can provide is greatly appreciated. The Terminal Server we use is running Windows Server 2008 Standard.

Thank you in advance.

Giovanni

Right-click on desktop, select Personalize, select Change desktop icons, check Recycle Bin...

or

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\
HideDesktopIcons\ClassicStartMenu]
"{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\
HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel]
"{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}"=dword:00000001

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Darius Ghassem

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Giovanni

On my comment, if you edit the registry keep in mind dword:00000001 enables hiding of the recycle bin and dword:00000000 disables hiding.

Giovanni

A visual walk-through it available here...

Inthedeepend

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Just to clarify this is a user on a Remote Desktop session. I am not in the habit of editing the registry in this business environment unless it is a last resort. Although I did have a look at the values and they were already set to "1". The original recycle bin was actually deleted not toggled by this check box because as I stated users do not have access to it. As far as the Group Policy Editor goes I assume this will affect all users and the selection is already set to "Not Configured".

I have managed to create a short cut on the desktop as described in the "workaround" section of the link dariusg provided so thank you for that.

I would really like to restore the original at some stage though but this will have to do for now.

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Thanks to you both not only for your knowledge but also the prompt reply. I understand that x66_x72_x65_x65 supplied the most professional solution but my lack of knowledge and education (hence the name) doesn't give me the confidence to attempt the options offered. In this case the workaround will have to do. Therefore I have chosen to split the points and hope that no one is offended by that.<br /><br />Thank you both again