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If you have Vista, right click on the desktop then click personalize, once there look to the left pane near the top and click Change Desktop Icons, this is where you choose which icons you want to appear on your desktop, close/OK out and you're all done.
without special software you don't
A pro can recover it
deleting something doesn't remove it, it flags it as an area that can be written over with data
the more you use the pc the less likely you will get any data back
If you have xp or Vista this may help:
RESTOREING ICONS IN XP
Solution 4
Right-click the desktop. Point to Arrange Icons By.
Click Show Desktop Icons.
Solution 5
1.Right-click an empty area of the desktop and choose “Properties”.
2. When the “Display Properties” multi-tabbed dialog box appears, click the “Desktop” tab.
3. Click the “Customize Desktop” button.
4. A “Desktop Items” dialog box will appear. Make sure the “General” tab is selected.
5. Choose an icon to change back.
6. Click “Restore Default”.
7. Click “OK” on the dialog boxes to close them.
Corrupted Icon Cache Windows XP
Windows XP caches all of the icons for all of the items on your desktop so that it doesn’t have to open each folder and extract the icon each time you reboot the computer. As a result, the icon cache can become corrupted, transparent or extremely small.
To fix the problem, you need to refresh the icon cache.
Go to Start -> Run and enter regedit to launch the Registry Editor.
Navigate to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorer key.
In the right-hand pane, find or create the DWORD value and set it equal to MaxCachedIcons. Always use the exact phrase and capitalization when entering information in the registry.
To enlarge the cache size, double-click on this value and change it to 4096 in decimal. If the problem recurs, try an even larger value.
Next, Right-click on the desktop, choose Properties, click on the Appearance tab
Click on the Advanced button
Select Icon in the Item list and increase the Size setting by 1 pixel (this will normally be from 32 to 33) as shown below
Click OK
Then click on the Apply button. The desktop will fade and then return back to normal.
Now click on the Advanced button again, change the icon size back to what it was, click on OK, and click on OK again. This forces windows to recreate the cache.
Dark Background Problem Windows XP
Sometimes desktop icons are outlined with a solid color as shown in the picture on the left below. To remove the color behind the captions:
Right click anywhere on the desktop
Select Arrange Icons by
Uncheck Lock Web Items on Desktop as shown in the middle picture below
The icons will appear without the background as show in the last picture on the right below.
Restoring Desktop Icons Windows Vista
Use the following steps on windows Vista machines to restore desktop icons:
right-click on the desktop and select the Personalize command as shown below
The Personalization folder from the Control Panel will open.
Select the Change Desktop Icons command in the Tasks section in the upper left corner of the folder window circled in red below
The Desktop Icon Settings dialog box shown below will open
Restore the Computer, Documents, and Network icons simply by selecting the appropriate check boxes. You can also add the Control Panel to the desktop.
To get the Internet Explorer icon back on the desktop, you have to edit the registry.
Click the Start button
Type Regedit in the Start Search box.
Press Enter
When the Registry Editor appears, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindows
CurrentVersionExplorerHidedesktopIconsNewStartPanel
Click anywhere inside the NewStartPanel folder.
Pull down the Edit menu and select the New -> DWORD (32-bit) Value command as shown below
When the new value dialog box appears, type in the following code, including the brackets: {871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}
Press Enter twice.
When you see the Edit DWORD (32-bit) Value dialog box, type 0 in the Value Data text box as shown below
To complete the operation, click OK and close the Registry Editor. In a few moments, you’ll see an Internet Explorer icon on your desktop.
Saving Desktop Icons
Most people like to arrange the icons on their desktop in a manner that makes sense to them. Sometimes when you least expect it the operating system will rearrange the icons without you telling it to do so. This usually happens when you change one of the desktop properties such as screen resolution, changed the wallpaper or did something else. This is another one of those annoying habits that windows has that drives users crazy.
Windows does not have a built in option to save and restore your current desktop layout, unless the entire active desktop crashes. However, there are several applications like desktop restore that will work with all versions of windows that allows you to save the current layout to a file which can later be restored. Most of these programs are free.
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That's right :) Hehe, happened to me couple of times ;p Anyway, it's stupid to give an option to remove a bin...
by Kathie on November 11th, 2009
It's not the option to remove it but the ability to hide it.
by Constantine on November 13th, 2009
I know, it's just... Can you imagine having a desktop with no bin? And then how much work to empty it ;p Anyway, the option says delete, not hide, which is confusing ;p
by Kathie on November 13th, 2009