Friday, 31 January 2014

Enable or Disable Recycle Bin From Desktop.

It is quite easy to enable or disable Recycle Bin from Desktop:

Method 1.
1. Right Click on Desktop, Choose Personalize.
2. Select Change Desktop Icons.
3. To enable select recycle bin and viceversa.

Method 2 (Registry Keys):
I.1. Open Regedit through run.
  2. Navigate to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\    {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
  3. If the value of default string is set to "Recycle bin", delete it inorder to enable recycle bin on desktop and    viceversa.

II 1. Open Regedit through run.
   2. Navigate to HKCUSoftware\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel\      
  3. Change the value of the DWORD {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} to "0" inorder to enable recycle bin on desktop and  to "1" to disable.

Method 3 (Group Policy):
1. Open Gpedit.msc.
2. Navigate to User Cnfiguration\Administrative Templates\Desktop.
3. Locate "Remove Recycle bin from Desktop".
4. Inorder to disable check enable and vicersa.

Method 4 (search box):
1. Type Desktop icon on search box.
2. Select show or hide common icons on desktop.
3. Choose the recycle bin to enable.

Note: The changes may happen suddenly or may require reboot.

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