How to restore Recycle Bin after deleting

Remember the post I did, on how you can remove the recycle bin permanently. LOL, a non-geekish friend of mine tried that, and successfully removed his recycle bin from his desktop. But now, he wants it back. I even told him how to do it, but still he asked for a tutorial. So this tutorial is dedicated to my friend, Fouzan :cool:

It’s very simple! You just have to reverse the old trick :wink:

Remember: Backup your registry first!

First, open your Registry Editor (Run > type regedit) and navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace

Now, do you remember what you did to remove the recycle bin? Well, you deleted the following entry:

{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

But to restore it back, you will have to create this back. After navigating to the above path, right-click on NameSpace, click “New” and then click “Key”.

Name the key: {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

Now close the Registry Editor and you’ll see your Recycle Bin back in its place. :wink:

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15 Comments

Shankar Ganesh

Hehe I’ve tried the deleting trick once but didn’t know how to bring it back :D this will help thanks!

Aug 29th, 2007
shaun

hahaha I remember you telling me someone deleted their recycle bin and they couldn’t get it working again. I didn’t expect you to post about it. Great post stumbled it :grin:

Aug 30th, 2007
Annoyed

Oh, for f*ck’s sake…

Just hide the damned thing with TweakUI: http://www.microsoft.com/windo.....rtoys.mspx

Stop trying to swat a fly with a stick of dynamite.

Aug 30th, 2007
lalisse

thanks!it helped a lot

Sep 8th, 2007
Mantas

I’ve tried this, but my Recycle Bin still does not work. I mean, there is no Recycle Bin icon on desktop, and if I delete a file, it is not moved to Recycle Bin. When I browse to C:\Recycler, I can see file Desktop.ini and folder with name like “S-(some numbers)”. If I open this folder properties, I see there option for Recycle Bin, but whatever I set there, my Recycle Bin does not work, and all files or folder that I delete (without “SHIFT”) are not moved to Recycle Bin. So are there anything else, that I could try to restore my Recycle Bin functionality. Besides I already tried Kerrie registry scripts for Recycle Bin restoration.

Nov 8th, 2007
krissy

I had accadently deleted my recycle bin it’s empty.. i want it back on my desktop screen.. so can you write it down on how to restore it back it would help me alot.

Thanks!

Dec 6th, 2007
Haris

@Krissy: Did you try the trick given above?

Dec 7th, 2007
susie

yeah this didn’t work for me either it’s still gone.

Dec 30th, 2007
ray ray

sum1 help me ive deleted the recycle bin off the registry and didnt make a back up wat can i do now what should i do pleeeez help and also were are all the deleted files going to…

Jan 19th, 2008
Haris

@ray ray: Your deleted files are still going in the Recycle Bin. As for how to get it back, at this moment I’m not sure how to do it.

Jan 20th, 2008
Matt

It’s a shame that this tutorial doesn’t help me at all…

Apr 14th, 2008
Ash.

Yea, this doesnt seem to really help out much….tried it, nope, nothing.

Jul 19th, 2008