hi

is there a tweak that allows you to either hide or remove the recycle bin of desktop and set it to "use one setting for all drives" and "do not move files to recycle bin, remove files imediatly when deleted" ?

Right click on Icon>Properties>set as needed.

To remove Icon use MS TweakUI, it allows removal of certain desktop Icons.

Hope this helps.

The following will hide the bin: save as reg file

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\ClassicStartMenu]

"{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel]

"{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}"=dword:00000001

And this will show the bin: again save as reg file

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\ClassicStartMenu]

"{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel]

"{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}"=dword:00000000

hey, thanks the registry entry works great for hiding it and i can incorparate it into my xp cd is there a way to add to that so that it automaticaly sets the recycle bin to delet files instead of sending them to it?

hey, thanks the registry entry works great for hiding it and i can incorparate it into my xp cd is there a way to add to that so that it automaticaly sets the recycle bin to delet files instead of sending them to it?

Yes

But this is one of those keys that you need to set it the way you like and export it cause it contains other things for Your machine. Go to this key and export the "ShellState"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]"ShellState"=hex:24,00,xx,xx,xx.....

Edited April 25, 200620 yr by maxXPsoft