How do I remove Recycle Bin Icon text???

To change the name of the Recycle Bin desktop icon, open Regedit and go to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/CLSID/{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

and change the name "Recycle Bin" to whatever you want or don't want (don't type any quotes).

Always be careful when editing the Registry.

Nope, not on mine... right click recycle bin icon > properties > ...

This gives me 3 tabs: Global, Local Disk (C:), and Recovery (D:) None of which contains a text field to rename or remove text from Title.

Thanks anyway,
Matt

Try the edited version of my post 

I just like the way quoting looks....

Tryed that too, (regedit,)not working either. I double click top line (Default - REG_SZ - Recycle Bin) and I get an edit string window with 2 text fields, value name:, and value data:

Value name is blank, and won't except text
Value data says Recycle Bin ... I changed it to Bucket to get a visual but nothing happened. I close the window & re-open regedit and it still says Bucket, but icon text remains Recycle bin.

I also found a download zip (I scanned) that was suppose to add a registry key that would add "rename" to right click of icon... that didn't work either. Says it was successfully added, but rename is not there on right click of icon

The way I changed recycle bin icon to vista was: right click desktop > properties > desktop > customize desktop > change icon (changed empty & full recycle bin icons to vista, both work fine) Was that wrong way? Is that why nothing is working? Is there a cliff nearby I can jump off of?

Matt

Matt

Edit the registry key, then reboot.  

I did reboot, I'll try it again though

still nothing says bucket in registry, but still recycle bin under icon

Click on HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/CLSID/{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} in the left panel.

In the right panel right-click on LocalizedString and select Modify. Change or remove the text in Value Data then exit and reboot.

That should work.

1. Open registry editor by going to Start -> Run, and execute regedit.
2. Navigate to the following registry branch:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\
3. 4. Double click on LocalizedString or right click on LocalizedString and select Modify to modify the registry value.
5. You should see the default value of “@%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll,-8964″. Delete or remove the default value and key in your desired new recycle bin’s name in text, e.g. “Garbage Bin” (without quote).
6. [color="#FF0000">Refresh your desktop or Windows Explorer by pressing F5. You will see the new ‘recycle bin’ name.
7. Optionally, you can also modify the text of InfoTip, commonly known as tooltip what display certain help tip, guide or description about Recycle Bin when the mouse is hovering on Recycle Bin icon on desktop. The default text is “Contains files and folders that you have deleted.” Simply double click on InfoTip, or right click on InfoTip and select Modify to change the text of the info tip.
8. The default value is “@%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll,-22915″, simply change it to another description that you want the tooltip to be.
9. Refresh the desktop to make it effective.

Thanks a bunch guys!, enough of us looking we got 'er licked

Matt

I'll try to put the fruits of your labor up on screenshots, thanks again

glad y'all got it


I was gonna suggest #115 on the left