Rename Windows Recycly Bin

by Harsh Agrawal on October 29, 2008

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Recycle bin

In my previous post I covered how to Rename Windows Start Button.

In this Article, I will tell you How to Rename Windows Recycle Bin.

Rename recycle bin

Go To START>RUN
Type regedit and press Enter
cLICK On HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
Drag Down and select CLSID
Under CLSIS , Find this Key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
Under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} Submenu Double Click on ShellFolder
Double Click On Attributes and change the value from 40 01 00 20 to 50 01 00 20
Click on ok !

Now rename the Recycle Bin to anything Of your choice by selecting recycle Bin.

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1 mnvamsi October 29, 2008 at 08:48: Cool tip but , I don find any use with the trick you mentioned..
But still I learned some thing that is important for me..
Keep up the good work.

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2 germanschoolboy October 29, 2008 at 12:29: cool entry, thanks for that. the recycle bin is a great mystery on my computer what i want to know most, however, is, how you can delete it. if you have an idea please post it

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4 Windows Vista Guide October 31, 2008 at 19:03: Nice tip if someone wants to put up a kwel name…

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5 Prince Biswaranjan May 24, 2009 at 12:35: I tried it on windows 7 but i got an error

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/1028/renamingrecyclebinerror.jpg

I even tried running regedit as administrator but to no avail

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