Recycle Bin Properties Grayed Out

a friend installed a custom windows seven ultimate and it runs great. i run it through its paces for him and i'm pretty impressed. the only two things that irked are when you rightclick the recycle bin and select properties everything is grayed ou, and when you delete something it is out and out deleted and not sent to the bin. i have had no luck finding any information on how to fix both issues. any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

it's a 64 bit version of 7

See if this tutorial will help

Recycle Bin Properties - Add or Remove

pbcopter said:

See if this tutorial will help

Recycle Bin Properties - Add or Remove

i can rightclick the bin and click properties and get the properties dialog, it's just all options are grayed out. also deleted items do not go to the bin first, they are just out and out deleted.

in order to empty the recycle bin when grayed out you have to open the recycle bin, click on 'Manage'
then click 'empty recycle bin' It seems we can no longer simply right click from the recycle bin icon on the desktop. Just another reason windows 7/8 SUCKS.