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Is there a PowerShell, Batch, or VBS script that can automatically pin the recycle bin to the start menu?

The recycle bin doesn't show up when you type it into the start menu which seems incredibly moronic. I am able to create a shortcut and pin it to the start menu so it shows up, but I'd like to ...
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Size of users' recycle bins on Windows Server 2019?

Is there a way to show the size of a recycle bin for each user in Windows Server 2019? (Or, perhaps, calculate such sizes via PowerShell and then display them in a neat table?) We may have runaway ...
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Why does `ls 'C:\$Recycle.Bin\'` show nothing?

I have a lot of files in Recycle Bin, yet using either ls 'C:\$Recycle.Bin\' or Get-ChildItem 'C:\$Recycle.Bin\' in PowerShell 7.1.5 there is no result. Do you know why?
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PowerShell, add the Recycle Bin to Quick access

I would very much like to add the "Recycle Bin" to the "Quick access" area of File Explorer using PowerShell (as this is a standard thing that I like to have on all new systems). ...
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Deleting Files from CMD or Powershell and Recycle Bin

When using command prompt or Powershell and the Remove-Item, del, or RD, why don't the items you delete end up in the recycle bin?
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