Question by Just me: How do I restore my recycle bin to desktop on Windows 98?
Recycle bin accidentally deleted from desktop. Actually, I didn’t do it. My friend did, and I don’t know what to tell her since I haven’t used Windows 98 in about 8 or so years. Anybody have any idea?
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Answer by sandy
do a system restore that should do it
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Click Start -> Run, type regedit then press Enter. The following is from Microsoft Support.
“It’s rare, but not unheard of for the Recycle Bin icon to disappear. In Regedit, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoft WindowsCurrentVersionExplorerDesktopNameSpace. In the left-hand pane, right-click the NameSpace key and select New, Key. Type the following, exactly, (all on one line with no spaces): {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} and press [Return]. In the right-hand pane, right-click on (Default) and select Modify. In the Edit String dialog, in Value data type Recycle Bin, click OK then close Regedit. Click the desktop and press [F5] to refresh it.”