Windows 7 I want to hide the recycle bin on the desktop

CURaven · Jan 13, 2009

actually I want to hide everything on the desktop.
BUT using ">right click on desktop>View>Show Desktop Icons (deselect)" to do that is tedious.

So if someone can point me in the way to creating a macro or tweak my registry for these two similar but kinda different tasks I would be very thankful.

PEACE!

reghakr · Jan 14, 2009

No Recycle Bin Script

Copy and paste the lines below and open in Notepad, then choose Save As, click the drop-down box and choose All Fies and then manually enter the .reg

I've got it, tested on Windows7. Save as before, run the script, then right-click on you desktop and choose refresh or hit the F5 key.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\ClassicStaMenu]
"{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel]...

tblount · Nov 28, 2009

What's wrong with simply right clicking on the desktop and UNCHECKING Show desktop icons?

If you want to get more fancy and set a hotkey to toggle icons on and off.... here is how:

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reghakr · Nov 29, 2009

Here's a registry sctoy that nat work

REGEDIT4

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\DefaultIcon]
@="Shell32.dll,31"
"Full"="Shell32.dll,32"
"Empty"="Shell32.dll,31"

Do you know how to create it in Notepad?

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