Comments on: Hide the Recycle Bin Icon Text on Windows Vista

By: Swooper

Swooper — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:30:30 +0000

Why a registry hack? I find that right clicking and renaming the recycle bin to “” or ” ” works just fine.

By: balaji

balaji — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:55:32 +0000

what if i don’t like the term ”recycle bin” at all? i may not be a geek, but i, for sure, do hate this term. a recycle bin is something you use for dumping things which you need recycled, isn’t it? but you don’t “recycle” files/folders/etc in windows os. you trash it if you don’t need it. if at all you do need it back, then you simply restore it back. at no point, you ”recycle” it by any means! so microsoft’s naming convention is itself faulty. god save us geeks all, and hoping by it, i managed to hack shell32.dll and other related system files and renamed the term “recycle bin” to a more appropriate “trash”. that not only sounds fine but also leaves a more lasting impression on any user on my pc. i hope i’ve not said too much. excuse me mr. gates, if you’re listening on to this forum!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:12:35 +0000

Does it works in XP SP2 ?

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:34:27 +0000

This works but I can not seem to rename the icon for network. Any ideas?

By: Omar

Omar — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:49:40 +0000

I accidently erase the recycle bin ico from my laptop. I want to restore it but I dont find it…

By: aaa

aaa — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:22:18 +0000

Yeah.. just rename and type a space… lets make this harder than it is (for that is the PC way).

By: johnnyworkaholic

johnnyworkaholic — Fri, 25 May 2007 05:54:32 +0000

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

By: XX

XX — Thu, 24 May 2007 08:57:09 +0000

or right click> rename and push the spacebar once.

By: Wilco

Wilco — Sun, 20 May 2007 20:09:24 +0000

Use ALT + 255 to rename it and you have the same hihi

By: johnnyworkaholic

johnnyworkaholic — Fri, 18 May 2007 17:36:29 +0000

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.