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gman314:
About two years ago, when I "hid" all signs of WindowsXP on my arcade, I also hid the recycle bin.  The other night, I deleted about 20GB of files and now I'm thinking "Hmm, I better empty out the recycle bin."  However, I cannot remember (even after a search of the entire hard drive) where the recycle bin is.  I have two created user accounts, and I have also used TweakUI to play around with settings initially.  It's not that much of an issue since my hard drive is 1TB, but it's the principal of the matter.  Any idea where my recycle bin could be??  I still want to keep it hidden, but would like to empty it.   :dunno
DJ_Izumi:
Open explorer, type in 'Recycle Bin' and hit enter.  The Recycle Bin should then open up in explorer. :P

That is, assuming you just removed the desktop icon and not the feature itself. o.o
gman314:
Well, I typed in "Recycle Bin" in a search of my C drive, and nothing came up.  This is probably a stupid question, but where exactly could I type "recycle bin" in explorer (I assume you are referring to Windows Explorer)?  If you probably haven't noticed, I had some degree of help in the hiding windows part of my initial setup.  Thanks.  :)
gman314:
I must have permanently deleted it because it does not show up anywhere.  On the positive side, I think that I had set windows to permanently delete files, as opposed to moving them to the recycle bin.  However, I could have sworn that I saw a dialog box telling me that it was moving files into the recycle bin after I had deleted them.   :dunno
Smeghead:
Right-click an empty area of your desktop
Select Properties
Click the Desktop tab
Click the Customize button
Click Restore Default
Exit all windows and restart your computer
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