XP: Rename Recycle Bin

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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.

 

17 Comments -


  1. Anonymous said on October 3, 2008

    Short and sweet.

  2. Beau said on February 18, 2009

    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.DEFAULTAppEventsSchemesAppsExplorer
    EmptyRecycleBin.Current

    It’s String Value is,

    %SystemRoot%mediaWindows 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

  3. mbox said on May 2, 2009

    thank you,
    mbox

  4. Anonymous said on August 11, 2009

    this is a fun magic
    i like that

  5. Anonymous said on October 23, 2009

    o thnx……….

  6. Name said on December 17, 2009

    So how exactly do you “Go” to HKCR/CLSID/645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E/ShellFolder/Attributes? Where is it? I looked in the registry, bec ause thats what it looks like it’d be in, I even searched with F3, nothing.

  7. Anonymous said on February 19, 2010

    THANK YOU.
    ITS WORKING.

  8. tora said on June 19, 2010

    ThanKs….muacccc

  9. Dev_malik33 said on July 12, 2010

    thank …………
    bade wala

  10. Shail said on August 24, 2010

    Yeah it worked and i am able to change my recycle bin name as dutbin

  11. Df said on September 1, 2010

    Thanks

  12. Earl said on January 13, 2011

    or u can change attributes to 50 01 00 20

  13. dad of mad said on March 18, 2011

    You are a mad ……

  14. Courteney Rice said on May 5, 2011

    Wow, beautiful, Thank you.

  15. amir said on August 25, 2011

    Thank You

  16. MObi said on October 25, 2011

    You can rename the default icons by adding a value for the following keys:
    Recycling Bin –
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

    My Documents at-
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CLSID\{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}

    My Computer at- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CLSID\{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}

    Default value is “” , so rename it whatever you want. Don’t forget to hit F5 from the desktop to refresh.

  17. Norm said on October 29, 2011

    Somehow my recycle bin ended up being labeled “Statement Page 2(12)”. Obviosly this is the name of a desktop download file, that would have been thrown to the trash. I followed the instructions above only to discover that I don’t even have the file @C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHELL32.dll,-8964

    My files go from @C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHELL32.dll,-32517 to @C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHELL32.dll,-9216 (when listing alphabetically).

    What can I do to rename my recycle bin?

 

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