What happened to my Recycle Bin?

Disappeared, that's what! In its place there is just a blank page icon
with the same "Recycle Bin" label and when I bring up its context menu
and the Open option in the menu I see all the deleted items in a Control
Panel folder but I can't find the usual shredding basket icon anywhere.
Any idea how I could restore that icon on the desktop in place of that
blank page icon?

On 26 Jan 2018, cameo wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

Disappeared, that's what! In its place there is just a blank page
icon with the same "Recycle Bin" label and when I bring up its
context menu and the Open option in the menu I see all the deleted
items in a Control Panel folder but I can't find the usual
shredding basket icon anywhere. Any idea how I could restore that
icon on the desktop in place of that blank page icon?

Right-click on the Desktop | Personalize | Change desktop icons | check
box Recycle Bin.

In article , lid (cameo) wrote:

*From:* cameo
*Date:* Fri, 26 Jan 2018 15:33:16 -0800

Disappeared, that's what! In its place there is just a blank page
icon with the same "Recycle Bin" label and when I bring up its
context menu and the Open option in the menu I see all the deleted
items in a Control Panel folder but I can't find the usual
shredding basket icon anywhere. Any idea how I could restore that
icon on the desktop in place of that blank page icon?

Assuming that pressing F5 with the desktop in focus doesn't sort it by
repopulating the icon cache, right-click the desktop and choose "Personalise".
Click the top-left "Choose desktop icons" link then play around with the Recycle
Bin checkbox and "Change Icon" dialog, clicking 'Apply' every time you've changed
something.

--
Regards
John ) Remove the obvious to reply...

On 1/26/2018 4:26 PM, John K.Eason wrote:
In article , lid (cameo) wrote:

*From:* cameo
*Date:* Fri, 26 Jan 2018 15:33:16 -0800

Disappeared, that's what! In its place there is just a blank page
icon with the same "Recycle Bin" label and when I bring up its
context menu and the Open option in the menu I see all the deleted
items in a Control Panel folder but I can't find the usual
shredding basket icon anywhere. Any idea how I could restore that
icon on the desktop in place of that blank page icon?

Assuming that pressing F5 with the desktop in focus doesn't sort it by
repopulating the icon cache, right-click the desktop and choose "Personalise".
Click the top-left "Choose desktop icons" link then play around with the Recycle
Bin checkbox and "Change Icon" dialog, clicking 'Apply' every time you've changed
something.

I did change the empty and full Recycle Bin icons in the Desktop Icon
Settings box but that did nothing to the plain white page icon on my
Desktop itself. its context menu has only the following entries:
Open, Create Shortcut, Rename and Properties. When I try to bring up the
Properties contect menu, it is refused with the error message
"The properties for this item are not available."

In article , lid (cameo) wrote:

*From:* cameo
*Date:* Fri, 26 Jan 2018 20:24:25 -0800

On 1/26/2018 4:26 PM, John K.Eason wrote:
In article , lid
(cameo) wrote:

*From:* cameo
*Date:* Fri, 26 Jan 2018 15:33:16 -0800

Disappeared, that's what! In its place there is just a blank page
icon with the same "Recycle Bin" label and when I bring up its
context menu and the Open option in the menu I see all the
deleted
items in a Control Panel folder but I can't find the usual
shredding basket icon anywhere. Any idea how I could restore that
icon on the desktop in place of that blank page icon?

Assuming that pressing F5 with the desktop in focus doesn't
sort it by
repopulating the icon cache, right-click the desktop and choose
"Personalise".
Click the top-left "Choose desktop icons" link then play around
with the Recycle
Bin checkbox and "Change Icon" dialog, clicking 'Apply' every
time you've changed
something.

I did change the empty and full Recycle Bin icons in the Desktop
Icon Settings box but that did nothing to the plain white page icon
on my Desktop itself. its context menu has only the following
entries:
Open, Create Shortcut, Rename and Properties. When I try to bring
up the Properties contect menu, it is refused with the error message
"The properties for this item are not available."

Hmm. Not seen anything like that before. No further ideas I'm afraid. :^(
--
Regards
John ) Remove the obvious to reply...

John K.Eason wrote:
In article , lid (cameo) wrote:

*From:* cameo
*Date:* Fri, 26 Jan 2018 20:24:25 -0800

On 1/26/2018 4:26 PM, John K.Eason wrote:
In article , lid
(cameo) wrote:

*From:* cameo
*Date:* Fri, 26 Jan 2018 15:33:16 -0800

Disappeared, that's what! In its place there is just a blank page
icon with the same "Recycle Bin" label and when I bring up its
context menu and the Open option in the menu I see all the
deleted
items in a Control Panel folder but I can't find the usual
shredding basket icon anywhere. Any idea how I could restore that
icon on the desktop in place of that blank page icon?

Assuming that pressing F5 with the desktop in focus doesn't
sort it by
repopulating the icon cache, right-click the desktop and choose
"Personalise".
Click the top-left "Choose desktop icons" link then play around
with the Recycle
Bin checkbox and "Change Icon" dialog, clicking 'Apply' every
time you've changed
something.

I did change the empty and full Recycle Bin icons in the Desktop
Icon Settings box but that did nothing to the plain white page icon
on my Desktop itself. its context menu has only the following
entries:
Open, Create Shortcut, Rename and Properties. When I try to bring
up the Properties contect menu, it is refused with the error message
"The properties for this item are not available."

Hmm. Not seen anything like that before. No further ideas I'm afraid. :^(

Another article I could find, mentioned "PropertySheetHandlers".
However, this is from the year 2005, and the .reg for Windows 7
could be different than this.

https://forums.techguy.org/threads/s...esktop.358718/

REGEDIT4

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

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}]
@="Recycle Bin"
"InfoTip"="Contains deleted items you can permanently remove or restore."

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\DefaultIcon]
@="shell32.dll,31"
"Empty"="shell32.dll,31"
"Full"="shell32.dll,32"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\InProcServer32]
@="shell32.dll"
"ThreadingModel"="Apartment"

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

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\shellex]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\{645FF04 0-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}]
@=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers\{645FF 040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}]
@=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\shellex\ExtShellFolderViews]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\shellex\ExtShellFolderViews\{5984FFE 0-28D4-11CF-AE66-08002B2E1262}]
"PersistMoniker"="file://C:\\WINDOWS\\web\\recycle.htt"

*******

The Windows 10 version of that method, uses double-byte strings for the things
that look like text above. The InfoTip above is easily readable, while
doing Regedit on the one in this article, it's done in hex. In any case,
you could try comparing even the keys, and see whether you're missing
the keys or not. (Windows 7 is more likely to look like the one here.)

http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/re...indows-10-fix/

The other possibility is a GPEDIT policy affecting it, but why would
they bother with just disabling properties ?

*******

Using a Restore Point, and restoring to a previous time, could
put the Registry back the way it was previously. That's another
possible way to fix it, on the theory it's a change to the
Registry that gives the symptoms.

Paul

On 1/27/2018 11:40 AM, Paul wrote:
John K.Eason wrote:
In article , lid (cameo)
wrote:

*From:* cameo
*Date:* Fri, 26 Jan 2018 20:24:25 -0800

On 1/26/2018 4:26 PM, John K.Eason wrote:
In article , lid
(cameo) wrote:

*From:* cameo
*Date:* Fri, 26 Jan 2018 15:33:16 -0800

Disappeared, that's what! In its place there is just a blank page
icon with the same "Recycle Bin" label and when I bring up its
context menu and the Open option in the menu I see all the
deleted
items in a Control Panel folder but I can't find the usual
shredding basket icon anywhere. Any idea how I could restore that
icon on the desktop in place of that blank page icon?

Assuming that pressing F5 with the desktop in focus doesn't sort
it by
repopulating the icon cache, right-click the desktop and choose
"Personalise".
Click the top-left "Choose desktop icons" link then play around with
the Recycle
Bin checkbox and "Change Icon" dialog, clicking 'Apply' every time
you've changed
something.

I did change the empty and full Recycle Bin icons in the Desktop Icon
Settings box but that did nothing to the plain white page icon on my
Desktop itself. its context menu has only the following entries:
Open, Create Shortcut, Rename and Properties. When I try to bring up
the Properties contect menu, it is refused with the error message
"The properties for this item are not available."

*Hmm. Not seen anything like that before. No further ideas I'm afraid.
:^(

Another article I could find, mentioned "PropertySheetHandlers".
However, this is from the year 2005, and the .reg for Windows 7
could be different than this.

https://forums.techguy.org/threads/s...esktop.358718/


REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}]

@="Recycle Bin"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}]
@="Recycle Bin"
"InfoTip"="Contains deleted items you can permanently remove or restore."

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\DefaultIcon]

@="shell32.dll,31"
"Empty"="shell32.dll,31"
"Full"="shell32.dll,32"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\InProcServer32]

@="shell32.dll"
"ThreadingModel"="Apartment"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ShellFolder]

"Attributes"=hex:40,01,00,20

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\shellex]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers]


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\{645FF04 0-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}]

@=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers]


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers\{645FF 040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}]

@=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\shellex\ExtShellFolderViews]


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\shellex\ExtShellFolderViews\{5984FFE 0-28D4-11CF-AE66-08002B2E1262}]

"PersistMoniker"="file://C:\\WINDOWS\\web\\recycle.htt"

*******

I don't think this 2005 article is really relevant; it's too old and
probably refers to Win XP as Win7 came out 4 years later.


The Windows 10 version of that method, uses double-byte strings for the
things
that look like text above. The InfoTip above is easily readable, while
doing Regedit on the one in this article, it's done in hex. In any case,
you could try comparing even the keys, and see whether you're missing
the keys or not. (Windows 7 is more likely to look like the one here.)

http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/re...indows-10-fix/

The other possibility is a GPEDIT policy affecting it, but why would
they bother with just disabling properties ?

*******

Using a Restore Point, and restoring to a previous time, could
put the Registry back the way it was previously. That's another
possible way to fix it, on the theory it's a change to the
Registry that gives the symptoms.

I did try the restore point method but did not help.
I think the whole issue was caused by MalwareBytes 3.3.1 that I ran
about the same time when this thing started happening. Originally I had
version 2.2.1 but when I tried to run it I was told that a new version
was available (3.3.1) and I updated to it before running a full scan.
That scan gave me a bunch POP hits (mostly from JetClean) which I
quarantined as they were marked potential malware. After a reboot I
discovered the corrupted Recycle Bin. Now I am also finding out that my
ethernet connection from the router doesn't work either, so I have to
use WiFi connection instead. It is frustrating!

On 1/27/2018 11:50 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , John K.Eason
writes:
In article , lid (cameo)
wrote:
[]
I did change the empty and full Recycle Bin icons in the Desktop
Icon Settings box but that did nothing to the plain white page icon
on my Desktop itself. its context menu has only the following
entries:
Open, Create Shortcut, Rename and Properties. When I try to bring
up the Properties contect menu, it is refused with the error message
"The properties for this item are not available."

Hmm. Not seen anything like that before. No further ideas I'm afraid. :^(

Can you do either of: (a) drag the corrupted icon to a temporary folder
[or delete it, but that could be drastic]; (b) [maybe after doing (a),
in fact that's probably advisable) drag [or shift-drag] it from
somewhere else - My Computer, or the relevant part of the Start menu
(I'm not on my W7 machine at the moment to confirm that those _have_ a
ressicle bin icon)?

Nothing like that worked for me, so I decided to restore my system image
I made 10 days earlier - after saving the newer more important files on
a pen drive for reinstalling them after the system restore. Turns out
that using the previously created Windows recovery CD, the system
restore from my USB drive was faster than the system backup. Then my
system booted up fine and the Recycle Bin was also where it should be.
However, I could still not use my ethernet connection to my router.
When I checked in the Device Manager the nVidia nForce Networking
Controller's status, I saw the message "This device cannot start (Code 10)"
Apparently many people have had this problem with this particular
controller according to my Google search, and all the advice points to
getting updated driver. I have not searched this very long but people
seem to have a hard time finding updated driver for this legacy
controller, neither from nVidia, nor from HP. I wish I knew which recent
Microsoft patch cased the problem with this deiver.