XP: Rename Recycle Bin
Posted by MickeyMouse in 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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October 03, 2008 at 3:34 am, Anonymous said:
Short and sweet.
February 18, 2009 at 4:36 am, Beau said:
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
May 02, 2009 at 12:20 pm, mbox said:
thank you,
mbox
August 11, 2009 at 3:50 pm, Anonymous said:
this is a fun magic
i like that
October 23, 2009 at 5:38 am, Anonymous said:
o thnx……….
December 17, 2009 at 4:27 pm, Name said:
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.
February 19, 2010 at 6:54 am, Anonymous said:
THANK YOU.
ITS WORKING.
June 19, 2010 at 6:44 am, tora said:
ThanKs….muacccc
July 12, 2010 at 7:22 am, Dev_malik33 said:
thank …………
bade wala
August 24, 2010 at 7:19 pm, Shail said:
Yeah it worked and i am able to change my recycle bin name as dutbin
September 01, 2010 at 7:40 am, Df said:
Thanks
January 13, 2011 at 12:13 pm, Earl said:
or u can change attributes to 50 01 00 20
March 18, 2011 at 12:17 pm, dad of mad said:
You are a mad ……
May 05, 2011 at 3:21 pm, Courteney Rice said:
Wow, beautiful, Thank you.
August 25, 2011 at 7:36 pm, amir said:
Thank You
October 25, 2011 at 7:25 am, MObi said:
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.
October 29, 2011 at 7:40 pm, Norm said:
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?