Showing posts with label Rename your Recyclebin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rename your Recyclebin. Show all posts

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Rename your Recyclebin

Change the name of your Recycle Bin,the place where temporarely deleted files are stored.
Just follow the following simple steps and have fun.

*Goto 'start' menu ,Choose 'Run' command.

*Type 'regedit' (without quotes).

* then you may notice Registery editor window.

*Select "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT" and then CLSD

*Then select "{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}"(you may notice lot of folders,dont worry)

*Open the shellFolder folder

*Change the "Attributes" data value from "40 01 00 20" to "50 01 00 20".

*change the "CallForAttributes" dword value to "0x00000000"
Change the value from 40 to 0.

*You must change both of these values to get the rename to appear.

*After performing the above steps you will be able to rename the icon like any other icon. Right-click the Recycle Bin icon on the desktop and click rename and rename it to any of your choice.


*NOTE: this above works only for windows xp



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The below procedure is for all windows apart from xp


*Goto 'start' menu ,Choose 'Run' command.

*Type 'regedit' (without quotes).

* then you may notice Registery editor window.

*Select "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT" and then CLSD

*Then select "{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}"



*Double click on Default icon from the right side of your window

*you will see the current name of your "recycle bin".
 Simple change it to whatever you want ex: Trash or your name

*close the Registry Editor.

*CLick O.K. button.

*Goto Your Desktop and Refresh the Desktop and See the magic.
 Your Recycle Bin has been Renamed.

*hope you like this trick


NOTE: this works only for windows xp