How to Enable Recycle Bin on Mapped drive.

How to Enable Recycle Bin on Mapped Drive.

Here is the solution for enabling Recycle Bin on Mapped Drive.

I have tested it in My existing environment Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server 2012 and it's running fine. 

Step 1. Press Win+R and type regedit and hit the enter key.

Step 2. Goto "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions"

Step 3. Press Right Click on Mouse and Create New Key under FolderDescriptions and paste 

"{9147E464-33A6-48E2-A3C9-361EFD417DEF}" as value.


Step 4. After creating the key Right Click under "{9147E464-33A6-48E2-A3C9-361EFD417DEF}" and Create New REG_DWORD-32Bit with Name = Category and set Value to 4.

Step 5. Create New String with Name = RelativePath and set the value to Y:\ 
(Note: Replace volume letter Y with your existing letter.)

Step 6. Create New String with Name = Name and set the value to YDrive


Step 7. Goto "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\BitBucket" and create a new Key KnownFolder.

Step 8. Under KnownFolder create new Key "{9147E464-33A6-48E2-A3C9-361EFD417DEF}"

Step 9. Under {9147E464-33A6-48E2-A3C9-361EFD417DEF} Create New REG_DWORD-32Bit as below.
MaxCapacity and set Hexadecimal value to c7eb (This will enable the capacity of 50GB in Recycle Bin)
NukeOnDelete and set Hexadecimal value to 0


After complete, the process Restart the computer and see the magic now recycle bin is enabled for your mapped drive.

Note: Recommend you to export Regedit backup before start the process to minimize any other issue.








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