Recycle Bin disappears

When I clicked the Recycle Bin item "Empty Recycle Bin" to clear the trash
accumulated there, the entire Recycle Bin sometimes disappears. This
happens only once in a while, and not all the time. Is this a bug in the
Vista OS?

Some people will asume you are deleting the recycle bin instead of emptying
it and will tell you how to fix this. I'm not one of those people because I
have a similar problem and understand your issue. Where you and I differ is
that this happens EVERY TIME I empty it AND when I drag something to it. I
have to refresh the desktop to get it back. Very annoying problem for which
I am yet to find a solution despite googling several times and posting the
problem here.

"Jimmy Hsu" <> wrote in message
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> When I clicked the Recycle Bin item "Empty Recycle Bin" to clear the trash
> accumulated there, the entire Recycle Bin sometimes disappears. This
> happens only once in a while, and not all the time. Is this a bug in the
> Vista OS?

It has only happened to me once.
But, from the number of times it appears in Newsgroups, it has to be a bug
in Vista.

If you right-click on the empty desktop>Personalise>Change Desktop Icons>you
find it is still ticked.
You can get it back by unticking, apply, etc; then reticking, apply, etc
--
Mick Murphy - Qld (Sunshine State) - Australia


"Jimmy Hsu" wrote:

> When I clicked the Recycle Bin item "Empty Recycle Bin" to clear the trash
> accumulated there, the entire Recycle Bin sometimes disappears. This
> happens only once in a while, and not all the time. Is this a bug in the
> Vista OS?
>
>

For me it comes back after several reboots.

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:34:31 +0800, "Jimmy Hsu"
<> wrote:

>When I clicked the Recycle Bin item "Empty Recycle Bin" to clear the trash
>accumulated there, the entire Recycle Bin sometimes disappears. This
>happens only once in a while, and not all the time. Is this a bug in the
>Vista OS?

Actually in my case, when I right-click on the empty
desktop>Personalise>Change Desktop Icons, I find it is UNTICKED. Once I
ticked it, followed by clicking Apply, the Bin reappears, voila.


"Mick Murphy" <> wrote in message
news:CE62EC7A-3850-4355-B1F2-...
> It has only happened to me once.
> But, from the number of times it appears in Newsgroups, it has to be a bug
> in Vista.
>
> If you right-click on the empty desktop>Personalise>Change Desktop
> Icons>you
> find it is still ticked.
> You can get it back by unticking, apply, etc; then reticking, apply, etc
> --
> Mick Murphy - Qld (Sunshine State) - Australia
>
>
> "Jimmy Hsu" wrote:
>
>> When I clicked the Recycle Bin item "Empty Recycle Bin" to clear the
>> trash
>> accumulated there, the entire Recycle Bin sometimes disappears. This
>> happens only once in a while, and not all the time. Is this a bug in
>> the
>> Vista OS?
>>
>>

Jimmy Hsu;837999 Wrote:
> When I clicked the Recycle Bin item "Empty Recycle Bin" to clear the
> trash
> accumulated there, the entire Recycle Bin sometimes disappears. This
> happens only once in a while, and not all the time. Is this a bug in
> the
> Vista OS?

Hello Jimmy,

When the Recycle Bin disappears on you, see if when you hover your
mouse pointer over the area where it should be if it highlights a blank
icon. If it does, can you right click on it to have the Recycle Bin
context menu?

If the above is true, then it may just be a blank bad icon issue. Try
this tutorial and also use the "Restore Default" button for the Recycle
Bin icons to see if it can help.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66...cycle-bin.html


If the above is not true, then you might try reseting the Recycle Bin,

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/13...le-folder.html

or running a "sfc /scannow" (no quotes) command to see if it can find
and fix any bad system files that may be causing this.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66...c-command.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn


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With one of my PCs on which this issue occurs, the Recycle Bin always
reappears after a reboot.

But I'd like to note that, at least here, the Recycle Bin is always
actually still there on the desktop, just invisible, and one can still
use it exactly as always if one can just remember its position on the
desktop.

Daze
----------------------------

David Sherman wrote:
> For me it comes back after several reboots.
>
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:34:31 +0800, "Jimmy Hsu"
> <> wrote:
>
>> When I clicked the Recycle Bin item "Empty Recycle Bin" to clear the trash
>> accumulated there, the entire Recycle Bin sometimes disappears. This
>> happens only once in a while, and not all the time. Is this a bug in the
>> Vista OS?
>

--

Daze

Hi Daze

If it happens again, try this tutorial and also use the "Restor
Default" button for the Recycle Bin icons to see if it can fix it.

'Recycle Bin
(http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66...cycle-bin.html

Hope this helps
Shaw

Daze N. Knights;838266 Wrote:
> With one of my PCs on which this issue occurs, the Recycle Bin alway
> reappears after a reboot
>
> But I'd like to note that, at least here, the Recycle Bin is alway
> actually still there on the desktop, just invisible, and one can stil
> use it exactly as always if one can just remember its position on th
> desktop
>
> Daz
> ---------------------------
>
> David Sherman wrote:> > >
> > > For me it comes back after several reboots
> >
> > > On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:34:31 +0800, "Jimmy Hsu
> > > <jimmyhsu@xxxxxx> wrote
> > >> > > > >
> > > >> When I clicked the Recycle Bin item "Empty Recycle Bin" to clear th
> > > tras
> > > >> accumulated there, the entire Recycle Bin sometimes disappears. Thi
> > > >> happens only once in a while, and not all the time. Is this a bug i
> > > th
> > > >> Vista OS?> > > >
> > > > >
>
> -
>
> Daz

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Thanks for the suggestions, Shawn. I'll give them a try the next time I
notice that the problem has re-occurred.

Daze
-------------------------


Brink wrote:
> Hi Daze,
>
> If it happens again, try this tutorial and also use the "Restore
> Default" button for the Recycle Bin icons to see if it can fix it.
>
> 'Recycle Bin'
> (http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66...cycle-bin.html)
>
> Hope this helps,
> Shawn
>
> Daze N. Knights;838266 Wrote:
>> With one of my PCs on which this issue occurs, the Recycle Bin always
>> reappears after a reboot.
>>
>> But I'd like to note that, at least here, the Recycle Bin is always
>> actually still there on the desktop, just invisible, and one can still
>> use it exactly as always if one can just remember its position on the
>> desktop.
>>
>> Daze
>> ----------------------------
>>
>> David Sherman wrote:> > >
>>>> For me it comes back after several reboots.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:34:31 +0800, "Jimmy Hsu"
>>>> <jimmyhsu@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>> When I clicked the Recycle Bin item "Empty Recycle Bin" to clear the
>>>> trash
>>>>>> accumulated there, the entire Recycle Bin sometimes disappears. This
>>>>>> happens only once in a while, and not all the time. Is this a bug in
>>>> the
>>>>>> Vista OS?> > > >
>>>>>>
>> --
>>
>> Daze
>
>

--

Daze

Your welcome Daze.

Shawn

Daze N. Knights;838341 Wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestions, Shawn. I'll give them a try the next time I
> notice that the problem has re-occurred.
>
> Daze
> -------------------------
>
>
> Brink wrote:> > >
> > > Hi Daze,
> > >
> > > If it happens again, try this tutorial and also use the "Restore
> > > Default" button for the Recycle Bin icons to see if it can fix it.
> > >
> > > 'Recycle Bin'
> > > (http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66...cycle-bin.html)
> > >
> > > Hope this helps,
> > > Shawn
> > >
> > > Daze N. Knights;838266 Wrote:> > > > >
> > > >> With one of my PCs on which this issue occurs, the Recycle Bin
> > > always
> > > >> reappears after a reboot.
> > > >>
> > > >> But I'd like to note that, at least here, the Recycle Bin is always
> > > >> actually still there on the desktop, just invisible, and one can
> > > still
> > > >> use it exactly as always if one can just remember its position on
> > > the
> > > >> desktop.
> > > >>
> > > >> Daze
> > > >> ----------------------------
> > > >>
> > > >> David Sherman wrote:> > >
> > > >> --
> > > >>
> > > >> Daze> > > >
> > >
> > > > >
>
> --
>
> Daze


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