I lost my recycle bin icon off my desktop, how do I get it back?

Everytime I use Windows Explorer to work with files it locks up for a period
of time the lets me work on file, (move, rename etc) I use explorer all the
time in my work and it will lock up 90% of the time. Any suggestions. I am
using an external hard drive if that is any help.

How to make Vista display same details for all folders?
In XP it was simple, disable remember each folders view settings, set
the view options, then apply to all folders.
In vista, how do I make vista display the same details view regardless

Somebody any experience with it.
I do not see the previous version although i indicated the related data disk
also to the restore point.
Regards

I tried to set-up all my subfolder directories all with the same layout in
Vista Ultimate, by selecting: Tools, Folder Options, and View. Or: Organize,
Folder & Search, and View.  However selecting “Apply to Folders” will not set
the width and location of the directory’s fields ...

Hi I just installed windows vista and I thought I backed up my files but I
didn't and now I can't find the windows.old files, where can I find it? I
tried on Start Search but I didn't fint it.
Thanks!!!

I've had my new Dell and Vista Home Premium for a couple of weeks.  I've
carefully arranged about 20 desktop icons in related groupings.  But this
morning when I turned on the computer, they were all lined up along the left
hand side.  Can anyone tell me what happened and how to ...

is there anywhere i can configure previous versions?
I would like to change what files are tracked, where they are tracked,
and where the changes are stored.

Because of a hardware problem, I need to transfer the contents of my new
windows vista laptop back to my old laptop running XP.  There are several GB
of data here, so I was hoping to use some sort of direct cable connection.  I
used an Easy Transfer Cable to migrate from my old ...

Was splitting up a file and lost most of it.
I only have what I cut out.  Have no idea how.  
How can I find the original.  
Thanks

Hello, I have moved some files from one folder to another, and even if the  
Indexing Options dialog says 'Indexing Complete', they are returned when I  
do a search.
Doesn't the index remove files that are no longer in the system?

In Windows Vista, I am frustrated that I cannont conduct a "find exact
phrase" search of all of the documents on a CD-ROM.  This was easy in Windows
EP, using Advanced Search -- it was possible to search the contents of the
files on a CD-ROM with Word doucments, pdf documents, ...

I had to edit a .bat file so I changed the default program to run .bat files
to wordpad.  Under the file association, the previous default program was
listed as "Unknown Application" so I don't know what to change my file
assocation back to in order to run the .bat file.

In Windows XP, I often used the advanced search features for find an exact
phrase in all of the doucments on one of my CD-ROMs.  This allowed a quick
search of many Word documents, pdf documents, and HTML documents, searching
for a phrase like "Norwegian bachelor farmer".  Now ...

I'm trying to copy about 7gig of folders and files from one SATA hard drive
to another SATA hard drive and it keeps failing saying that 'there is not
enough memory to complete this operation' please can someone tell me what
this means?