Changes you can make to the Windows Recycle Bin

Making Changes to the Windows Recycle Bin Changes and Repairs

Here are some changes you can make to the Recycle Bin, just be careful. With these changes you can make the Recycle Bin context menu act like all the other icon context menu’s!

Add rename to the menu: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ShellFolder

“Attributes”=hex:50,01,00,20

Add delete to the menu: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ShellFolder

“Attributes”=hex:60,01,00,20

Add rename and delete to the menu: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ShellFolder

“Attributes”=hex:70,01,00,20

Restore the recycle bin to Windows defaults including un-deleting the icon after deletion:

Restore the icon: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

@=”Recycle Bin”

Reset Windows defaults: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ShellFolder

“Attributes”=hex:40,01,00,20

Other edits to the recycle bin icon:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ShellFolder

“Attributes”=hex:40,01,01,20 … standard shortcut arrow “Attributes”=hex:40,01,02,20 … an different shortcut arrow “Attributes”=hex:40,01,04,20 … and still another shortcut arrow

“Attributes”=hex:40,01,08,20 … make it look disabled