XP: Rename Recycle Bin

Contributor Icon Contributed by MickeyMouse Date Icon June 5, 2007  
Tag Icon Tagged: Windows

Recycle Bin is such a weak name. Personalize your XP installation by renaming your recycle bin to whatever you wish.


Oh, this requires a registry edit. Editing your registry can cause cancer and computer crashes. Only do it if you know what you are doing (and can afford chemotherapy).

1. Click Start
2. Click Run
3. Type regedit and hit ENTER
4. In the registry editor go to the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache

5. Double click on the following value:
@C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHELL32.dll,-8964

6. Change the value to whatever you wish.

7. Click OK and close out regedit
8. Click on a blank area of the desktop and select refresh from the context menu.
9. After the screen refreshes, you recycle bin will be renamed to whatever you decided.

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  • Anonymous
    I find it better to do this via the registry with a change that allows you to rename the recycle bin in almost a normal manner. Go to
    HKCR/CLSID/645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E/ShellFolder/Attributes and change it from 40 01 00 20 to 70 01 00 20.
    To change the name without using the registry anymore, right-click on the recycle bin and choose explore. In the left pane of Explorer, you can now change the name, as normal.
  • MickeyMouse
    Nice hack! Thanks!
  • Anonymous
    I live for stuff like this ( ... ).
    Thanks.
  • Anonymous
    hehehe.. nice one! :D
  • Anonymous
    :( When I select "explore" ,appear panel explore.When I right-click on "Recycle Bin" don't appear "Rename"..Why?? :x
  • Fuzz
    Short and sweet.
  • Beau
    I have renamed my Recycle Bin to "Garbage". Now, the sound that usually plays when the Recycle Bin is emptied doesn't play anymore. I have located the .wav file that it uses in the Registry Editor at,

    HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Explorer
    \EmptyRecycleBin\.Current

    It's String Value is,

    %SystemRoot%\media\Windows XP Recycle.wav

    Now that I have renamed the Recycle Bin, do you now how I can associate this .wav file back to it.

    P.S.-Could you e-mail me in case I lose this URL...I have quite alot of Favorites. Thanks SpyderBDM@aol.com
  • mbox
    thank you,
    mbox
  • gaminda
    this is a fun magic
    i like that
  • monawar
    o thnx..........
  • Sorry Bro But your Idea didn't Worked. Rather I found out a very good site which explains many ways to rename the recycle bin windows xp


    http://programing-tutorial.blogspot.com/2009/10...

    http://programing-tutorial.blogspot.com/
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