Frank Weber - 3 days ago

Hey guys,

guess most of you know that anyway, but I installed Win11 a couple of days back and just found out that the recycle bin for mounted drives is not activated by default. Imagine the possible data loss, if silly you thinks everything deleted is still somewhere safe in the bin. Imagine you misclick. I needed days to find out there was a problem.

Solved easily.

Two entries in Registry, see below.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

both with a new entry on the right side, Dword(32-bit) named RecycleBinDrives and the value ffffffff.

Then rightclick the recyclebin on the desktop, identify your (mounted) drive and give a number for the size of your bin. Because the default is zero. Restart Explorer and it should work. Please test it first.

I do this because I stopped here first and did not find anything.

 
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