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If you have lost your recycle bin from your desk top on windows vista then the follwoing might help

Basically The Recycle Bin does not appear on the desktop in Windows Vista or in Windows XP. Therefore, you cannot use the Recycle Bin to do such tasks as restoring a file that was deleted. Hopfully we can help you make the Recycle Bin work again.

Several issues could cause this problem:

• A third-party program was used to hide the Recycle Bin.
• The TweakUI program was used to hide the Recycle Bin.
• The registry information for the Recycle Bin was deleted.
• A Group Policy setting was used to hide the Recycle Bin.

You can automatically fix the problem by downloading this file from Microsoft.

Or if you prefer the manual method – Read more…

Put the following into a .bat file and run

wsus.bat:
secedit /refreshpolicy machine_policy /enforce
gpupdate
reg delete HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionWindowsUpdate /v AccountDomainSid /f
reg delete HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionWindowsUpdate /v PingID /f
reg delete HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionWindowsUpdate /v SusClientId /f
cls
@echo Triggering detection after resetting WSUS client identity
net stop wuauserv
net start wuauserv
wuauclt /resetauthorization /detectnow