Windows 10: Recycle Bin icon not changing when emptying

When I empty my trash the icon does not change from one with trash to an empty one. If I run the mouse over the icon it updates and changes to empty. I tried a DISM software check and rd /s /q C:\$Recycle.bin from admin CMD. There seems to be nothing wrong. Searches indicate this is probably local to my system. It would be nice to get it working like last summer. I don't have any desktop addon or mod apps installed. The desktop is stock as far as I know.

Running: Win10P 20H2 19042.867

Does anyone know of a fix?


Happy Trails & Good Health


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C:> Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth
Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 10.0.19041.844
Image Version: 10.0.19042.867
No component store corruption detected.
The operation completed successfully.
C:> Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth
Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 10.0.19041.844
Image Version: 10.0.19042.867
[==========================100.0%==========================] No component store corruption detected.
The operation completed successfully.
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Empty Recycle Bin Tip

Add Empty The Recyle Bin to right click on your desktop (Works with XP & Vista)


Just Copy the the text below to notepad and save the file .reg (tip.reg) click on the file and there ya go!


Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}]
@="Empty Recycle Bin"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Empty Recycle Bin]
@="{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Empty Recycle Bin]
@="{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Empty Recycle Bin]
@="{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Empty Recycle Bin]
@="{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}"

 

Empty Recycle Bin Tip

Right click desktop, click personalize, click change desktop icons.

In Desktop Icons window, click restore defaults and click apply or OK. If that don't do it then click the icon you want change and choose it again, both empty and full, and click apply.
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I believe F5 just refreshes the open window or desktop.

 

How to show 'Empty recycle bin' when right-clicking in the Recycle bin icon

Hi,

I installed a software called JetClean and JetBoost, freeware and similar to CCleaner. It added some options when right-clicking in the Recycle bin icon ("Empty with JetClean" or something like that).

And that was OK. However, I install and run Malawarebytes Antimalware and it told me that JetClean was a virus/malware, so I proceeded to delete all trace of it, and it caused some changes in the recycle bin.

Although it keep working fine (i.e. sending files to recycle bin when deleting or recovering them), the empty and full recycle bin icons in desktop were substituted by a blank icon. I tried to recover the icons in settings|themes|desktop icons setting, but
it didn't work. Then a did a google search and followed some instructions adding/changing some registry lines and at first I managed to change the blank icon with the empty recycle bin icon (been the bin empty or full) and at last I managed to get both empty
and full recycle bin icons working properly.

However, the 'Empty recycle bin' option is not shown when right-clicking on the recycle bin icon. In fact I couldn't access to the recycle bin properties right-clicking on the icon and choosing the properties option (it told me that I have no permissions),
which apparently was solved doing the registry thing, but the 'empy recycle bin' option is still not showing. This applies for the icon in the desktop as well as the icon in the file explorer, and I neither have the option of emptying the recycle bin in the
task bar when opening it in explorer (it only shows the typical options for any other folder), so the only way for emptying the recycle bin is open it in explorer, select the files, and pressing 'supr'.

So, please, can anybody help me to restore the Recycle bin as it is supposed to work? Thanks in advance.