Greetings all,

I'm working on some visual tweaks to my system and I've run into a stumbling block. How do I go about changing the icon for the recycle bin?? This is the only one that's avoiding me so far. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Win XP Pro.

ripped from: http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/13604/how-do-i-change-the-recycle-bin-icons.html


There are two icons for the Recycle bin, an empty and a full. To change them use the following

1. Start the registry editor (regedit.exe)
2. Move to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{645FF04 0-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\DefaultIcon
3. To change the empty icon double click on Empty, to change the full icon double click on Full
4. Set to the icon required, i.e. "d:\Prog Files\Plus\Themes\John.ico,0". The 0 shows it is icon 1 in the file
5. Exit the registry editor

You can also change the icons using the Plus tab of Display properties.

If you are concerned about editing it yourself, then you might want to look up some "Tweak" tools.

Thanks for the info Stryder.

I've got no problems messing with my registry.

Always backup your registry kids! :-)

Interesting link. What I cannot understand however is that last bit: "You can also change the icons using the Plus tab of Display properties."
???
Uh, no you can't.

Thanks for the info Stryder.

I've got no problems messing with my registry.

Always backup your registry kids! :-)

Interesting link. What I cannot understand however is that last bit: "You can also change the icons using the Plus tab of Display properties."
???
Uh, no you can't.


It was probably written with one version of the OS which hasn't been continued in future version. I think originally there was a way to change it through "Themes".