Hide the Recycle Bin Icon Text on Windows Vista
The recycle bin is really obvious. We've been seeing the same thing since Windows 95, so having text on the icon to tell us what it is seems a little unnecessary. With a little registry patch, we can easily remove the text.
Just download the registry patch, unzip, and then double-click on the file. You'll get a bunch of UAC prompts asking if you really want to do this.
After the patch has been added, right click on the desktop and choose Refresh, and you should see your new Recycle Bin icon without the text:
This is pretty sweet.
If you want to restore the Recycle Bin icon text, you can download this registry patch instead, unzip, and then double-click on the file. Your recycle bin text will go back to normal.
If you want to hide the text on regular desktop icons, you can follow this guide.
How to you go back and put the text back in place after removing the recycling bin text
I've updated the article with with instructions on how to put the icon back to normal.
I just used your other tip Alt-255 on Vista Ultimate and made the text on the Recycle Bin disappear.
excellent info. spent ages going through microsoft site trying to restore recycle bin without success….went to this site and restored it within seconds….thankyou.
i renamed icons on my desktop as instructed however i got a strange side effect.
The "COMPUTER" item in my start menu disappeared. the tooltip stilll shows up and indicate that it is still COMPUTER but the text disappered. i tried reversing but it ddnt work. pls help.
Use ALT + 255 to rename it and you have the same hihi
or right click> rename and push the spacebar once.
renaming and undoing the rename of icons is not my problem. After i renamed icons, my MENU got a strange effect. The start MENU lost the text for MY COMPUTER. I reversed the renaming process but the Start MENU ddnt restore the txt lost. The txt in the START MENU "My Computer" is missing
Yeah.. just rename and type a space… lets make this harder than it is (for that is the PC way).
I accidently erase the recycle bin ico from my laptop. I want to restore it but I dont find it…
This works but I can not seem to rename the icon for network. Any ideas?
Does it works in XP SP2 ?