Remove Recycler Icon From Desktop

[Frederick R. Hutchings]

Hi,

I have Win XP SP3.

Is there a way to remove the Recycle Bin icon from the desktop.

Thanks,
Fred

 

[Mike Torello]

Hi,

I have Win XP SP3.

Is there a way to remove the Recycle Bin icon from the desktop.

Best thing to do (I think, therefore I did) is to right-click it,
choose properties, then make it hidden.

 

[Lem]

Best thing to do (I think, therefore I did) is to right-click it,
choose properties, then make it hidden.

Pretty good trick ... but there's no option to hide the icon that way
(at least on my XP boxes). Use TweakUI from
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/Downloads/powertoys/Xppowertoys.mspx

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[Frederick R. Hutchings]

Thanks a lot. That sure did the trick!

Fred

Pretty good trick ... but there's no option to hide the icon that way (at
least on my XP boxes). Use TweakUI from
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/Downloads/powertoys/Xppowertoys.mspx

--
Lem -- MS-MVP

To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm

 

[Mike Torello]

Pretty good trick ... but there's no option to hide the icon that way
(at least on my XP boxes).

OOPS<blush.... I'm posting from a Vista box.

My notebook runs on XP.

 

[Frederick R. Hutchings]

Thanks for the good intentions. Nice to know you can do it on Vista.

Fred

 

[SC Tom]

OOPS<blush.... I'm posting from a Vista box.

My notebook runs on XP.

I have Vista on my notebook, but that option doesn't show under Properties
on mine.
The way I had to do it was r-click the desktop, pick Personalize, then in
the Tasks pane pick Change desktop icons and uncheck Recycle Bin.

SC Tom

 

[Frederick R. Hutchings]

Thanks again.

Fred

I have Vista on my notebook, but that option doesn't show under Properties
on mine.
The way I had to do it was r-click the desktop, pick Personalize, then in
the Tasks pane pick Change desktop icons and uncheck Recycle Bin.

SC Tom

 

[Bill in Co.]

OOPS<blush.... I'm posting from a Vista box.

My notebook runs on XP.

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