This sounds like the chicken and the egg problem, Bill. The only thing that jumps into my mind is
TweakUI - if you have it, you may be able to re-create the recycle bin and its functions using the
utilities on the repair or desktop tabs. I don't think it will work, but it's worth a try. Short of
that, you don't mention your operating system, but if you are using Win 98, and you have a recent
backup up your registry, you can boot to DOS from your boot disk, run scanreg, and restore a good
backup. This should work, but you'll lose anything you've done since your last registry backup.
Good luck

Alan Thompson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Kapelas" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 7:37 AM
Subject: [PCSOFT] Recycle Bin has disappeared!


> Hi All:
>
> My recylce bin is missing. Can't say precisely when, but I did a Disk Cleanup
> yesterday which ran smoothly and then later noticed no icon on the desktop and no
> icon in Win Explorer. The icon for c:\recycled is a normal folder, with no
> functions of the recycle bin. I can delete to that folder, but cannot
> rightclick/restore a file. Trying disk cleanup now shows items in recycle bin but
> if I try to view files I get an error.
>
> I have deleted the recycle folder and its info2 (this file list whats in
> recycled) and let them reinstall, but this didn't change the situation.
>
> Also curiously the info2 file in c:\recycled without any extension is described
> as a winamp file(?).
>
> Thanks for any thoughts.
>
> Bill

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