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Friday, June 11, 2010

Recycle The Recycle Bin

Some people are paranoid about how clean their desktops look, and would rather not have icons like My Computer, My Documents, etc. on it. Now removing these is easy—
just rightclick on the Desktop, select Properties > Desktop > Customize Desktop, and then uncheck all the boxes corresponding to the icons you don’t want.


But what about the Recycle Bin? This one’s a tougher nut to crack.


Go to the Registry Editor, navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\
Look for the key {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08- 00AA002F954E} and delete it. Of course, you may want to just rename the Recycle Bin instead of deleting it altogether.
In this case, you should navigate to HKEY_CURRENT _USER\Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ ShellNoRoam\ MUICache and change the value of @C:\WINDOWS\ system32\ SHELL32.dll,-8964 to whatever you want.

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