Recycle Bin Image gone but functional

[JaniceTB]

On my desktop, the IMAGE for the recycle bin has disappeared! The text for the icon is showing as normal and I can drag items to the space above the words "Recycle Bin" and then right-click that space to empty it, but no image of it.

So I decided to create a shortcut to the recycle bin on my desktop (through 'create shortcut' button). The icon then appeared BUT only on the shortcut, not the orginal.

 

[Brink]

Hello Janice, and welcome to Seven Forums.

You might see if either restoring the default Recycle Bin icon, or changing the Recycle Bin icon to another icon and restoring the default icon afterwards may toggle it and have the icon display again.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/920-desktop-icons-change-restore-default-icon.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[JaniceTB]

That worked! Thank you!!

 

[JaniceTB]

ACTUALLY I spoke too soon. I was able to get the icon on the desktop but when I drag something in it, it disappears again. So I emptied it but it doe not reappear.

Also, why are there two recycle bins to choose from Recycle Bin (empty) and Recycle Bin (full)?

 

[whs]

Go here: Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Personalization and on the left side there is "Change Desktop Icon". Try to fix it there.

 

[JaniceTB]

I tried to change it that way, and the same thing happened.

 

[Brink]

ACTUALLY I spoke too soon. I was able to get the icon on the desktop but when I drag something in it, it disappears again. So I emptied it but it doe not reappear.

Also, why are there two recycle bins to choose from Recycle Bin (empty) and Recycle Bin (full)?

Well, we're almost there then.


The Recycle Bin uses two icons. One icon for when it's full, and another icon for when it's empty. Try changing the icon for both of these to another icon, apply, then restore the default icon for both of them to see if it may help.

If not, then rebuild the icon cache to see if it may.

 

[JaniceTB]

Can you explain further what you want me to do and how to do it? I don't understand what to do....

 

[Brink]

It's the same as you did above in the tutorial below, but just change the icons for both Recycle Bins (Empty & Full), apply the change, then restore them back to default. That's all.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/920-desktop-icons-change-restore-default-icon.html

 

[JaniceTB]

Thanks. I changed the Full one to a padlock and the empty one to a flower. Since it is empty, the flower appeared on the desk top. Then I dragged something into it hoping to see the padlock but no luck...or I should say no icon. Then I set the default and the regular 'empty' recycle bin appeared. I dragged something into it and the icon disappeared again (rather than show the full recyle bin). I went ahead and emptied it hoping to at least see the empty icon but it stayed the same...no icon.

 

[JaniceTB]

I have to log off for now. I will try to get on in awhile. Thank you so much for trying to help me.

 

[Brink]

You're welcome. When you're ready again, see if rebuilding the icon cache (click on link) may help afterwards.

 

[Difusal]

same problem here :/ everytime I drag something there or even if I empty it, the icon disappears.. I've been pressing F5 when this occurs, but I would like to fix this..

 

[Brink]

Hello Difusal,

You might give these a try to see if it may be able to help.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/24761-recycle-bin-fix-custom-icons-not-refreshing.html

and

Recycle Bin - Vista Forums

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[Hard2Handle]

I tried the suggestions above and no luck (I have windows 7). Restoring the icons didn't restore the recycle bin image. What I did do, which does correct the initial problem, but created another minor problem that I was able to find a solution for. What I did was this: I went to start, typed "recycle" without the quotes, moved cursor to "recycle bin shortcut" and right clicked and sent the new shortcut to the desktop. That brought back the image but now I have two bins, the good and the bad. I couldn't drag it to the new recycle bin and it wouldn't let me right click and delete it, so I moved the new recycle bin off my desktop into a folder elsewhere. I wasn't sure if leaving the new one on the desktop would have worked, since my next step was to hide the old recycle bin by doing the following: start, control panel, appearance & personalization, change desktop icons, then un-tick the recycle bin and hit ok. That got rid of the old bin. Next was to go to the folder where I had dragged the new recycle bin icon and I dragged it back to the desktop. I had no idea if doing all this would work but it did. I didn't actually delete the old one so I'm not sure if down the road there could be any problems, such as if you have to reboot and since the recycle bin is not going to appear since I unticked it, I'm not for certain it will reappear after a reboot. Maybe someone could test that out. Hope it helps someone else that couldn't get the other suggestions to work for them. Good luck.