Solved Recycle bin icon is missing text

Kol12 · Jan 31, 2024

Ghot said:
But I still don't understand how that puts the words Recycle Bin... back under the Recycle Bin.

By renaming it I guess?

antspants · Jan 31, 2024

Kol12 said:
It did! The text is showing in explorer again too. I wonder if I've accidentally renamed the recycle bin somehow? I did wipe clean all the keys on my keyboard the other day while the machine was on. Maybe I hit some key combination that wiped the recycle bin text?

Had you rebooted since the text got lost on the recycle bin? Reads like a very temp system glitch to me and it was the reboot not the renaming.
I say this because renaming the recycle bin couldn’t possible have anything to do with the missing text from explorer. I’m happy to be told otherwise.

antspants · Jan 31, 2024

Ghot said:
Yeah, probably not a good idea, while the comp is on

Absoloutly.

Kol12 · Jan 31, 2024

antspants said:
Had you rebooted since the text got lost on the recycle bin? Reads like a very temp system glitch to me and it was the reboot not the renaming.
I say this because renaming the recycle bin couldn’t possible have anything to do with the missing text from explorer. I’m happy to be told otherwise.

I restored a Macrium image from one week ago and the recycle bin text is missing then too, so it's been there for at least a week...

Right click the recycle bin, hit rename and delete the text. Now the text is missing right? Maybe this was possible from some key combination when I wiped the keyboard...

antspants · Jan 31, 2024

Kol12 said:
I restored a Macrium image from one week ago and the recycle bin text is missing then too, so it's been there for at least a week...

Right click the recycle bin, hit rename and delete the text. Now the text is missing right? Maybe this was possible from some key combination when I wiped the keyboard...

Many things are possible when cleaning keys whilst the keyboard is connected to your PC. You don’t need a mouse to get around a computer, you can navigate with the keyboard. Also select, delete etc etc. very likely what happend. You’re lucky you didn’t lose anything really.

Like @Ghot said, shut down or disconnect the keyboard

I’m more interested in the missing txt in file explorer. It doesn’t make any sense to me.

Kol12 · Jan 31, 2024

antspants said:
Many things are possible when cleaning keys whilst the keyboard is connected to your PC. You don’t need a mouse to get around a computer, you can navigate with the keyboard. Also select, delete etc etc. very likely what happend. You’re lucky you didn’t lose anything really.

Like @Ghot said, shut down or disconnect the keyboard

I’m more interested in the missing txt in file explorer. It doesn’t make any sense to me.

Try renaming recycle bin and deleting the text so it's empty. Is it now empty in file explorer too?

antspants · Jan 31, 2024

Kol12 said:
Try renaming recycle bin and deleting the text so it's empty. Is it now empty in file explorer too?

OK that’s different. I thought you meant any title bar text. My humble apologies. I wasn’t paying attention

x BlueRobot · Jan 31, 2024

Ghot said:
I don't have that CLSID number in that location, and my Recycle Bin works fine??

Neither do I and the recycle bin is appearing on my desktop without any issues.

Code:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel
    {20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}    REG_DWORD    0x0

The CLSID mentioned in the supposed fix does exist though:

Code:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
    (Default)    REG_SZ    Recycle Bin
    AppID    REG_SZ    {E10F6C3A-F1AE-4ADC-AA9D-2FE65525666E}
    InfoTip    REG_EXPAND_SZ    @%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-22915
    LocalizedString    REG_EXPAND_SZ    @%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-8964
    SortOrderIndex    REG_DWORD    0x78

It looks like the name of the shortcut is stored here:

Code:

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1515169451-1187496070-1939896076-1001\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
    (Default)    REG_SZ    Recycle11 Bin