Something funny happened to the Recycle Bin icon.

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Today I deinstalled the test version of a program
(True Image) and installed the purchased version.
Weird side-effect; the Protected Recycle Bin has lost
its distinctive icon. You can't change the icon in the
usual way in Properties after right-clicking on it,
so I can't, AFAIK, undefault the icon. Not worth
a lot of trouble to fix, the bin works fine and so
does everything else I've used since. Just one of
life's strange occurrences.

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Can it be changed by:
Right click the desktop
Click Properties > Effects tab

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"Anthony Buckland" <buckland@direct.ca> wrote in message
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> Today I deinstalled the test version of a program
> (True Image) and installed the purchased version.
> Weird side-effect; the Protected Recycle Bin has lost
> its distinctive icon. You can't change the icon in the
> usual way in Properties after right-clicking on it,
> so I can't, AFAIK, undefault the icon. Not worth
> a lot of trouble to fix, the bin works fine and so
> does everything else I've used since. Just one of
> life's strange occurrences.
>

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Glad to hear it. Keep us informed. Ah, it is good to have backups! Here
is my solution to your next problem in advance: Get it out of your full
system backup!


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"Anthony Buckland" <buckland@direct.ca> wrote in message
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| Anthony Buckland wrote:
|
| > Today I deinstalled the test version of a program
| > (True Image) and installed the purchased version.
| > Weird side-effect; the Protected Recycle Bin has lost
| > its distinctive icon. You can't change the icon in the
| > usual way in Properties after right-clicking on it,
| > so I can't, AFAIK, undefault the icon. Not worth
| > a lot of trouble to fix, the bin works fine and so
| > does everything else I've used since. Just one of
| > life's strange occurrences.
| >
| Okay, I have the answer to my own question.
| The True Image installation procedure (actually,
| deinstallation of the trial version and installation
| of the purchased version) deleted two files from the
| C:\WINDOWS\ folder, containing the icons that the
| Protected Recycle Bin (a feature of, in my case,
| Norton SystemWorks 2003) uses. I recovered them
| from an older tape save, and now the desktop icon
| is correct. Anything else that got destroyed will,
| I guess, show up eventually
|