skier

I want to get rid of my recycle bin icon on my desktop. I have a neat little taskbar on the top of my screen that holds all the icons I used to have on my desktop.

I got rid of all the icons on my desktop except for the recycle bin, which seems etched into the desktop. I want to rid my desktop of this stupid icon! can anyone help me?

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the_marq

Did you already try this?:

http://www.google.ca/search?q=remove...e+Search&meta=

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skier

well that would be too easy, wouldn't it.

I feel a need to bang my head against the wall for a few hours first

edit: this isn't as easy as I thought it would be

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Confederate

right click on desktop, go to properties, it's different with xp/2000.
either go to back ground and click customize desktop, and the icons should show up, and uncheck recycle bin. I believe that's how it's done in XP. I'm on a 2000 computer at work so I can't be certain.

mikec

which OS are you running??

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skier

I'm running XP home.

I didn't have the Reg key they were talking about, and Tweak UI didn't help me.

Edit: TweakUI was supposed to help me, but It still didn't enable me to delete the recycle bin. I still get the same menu.

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sixate

Twaek UI does get rid of it.

In Tweak UI go to Desktop options, and make sure your recycle bin in not checked, and it will be gone.

soccerchamp76

Download TweakXP.
Trial version is free.

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skier

Ok. So I try to get rid of my recycle bin, I do the regedit thing, the tweak manager thing, the tweakUI thing, and rebooted several times, but it just stuck there.

I head to work frustrated. When I come home, I look on my desktop and it's still there. I reboot one last time, and it finally works. What happened in the 5 hours that I let the computer sit that allowed the recycle bin to go away?

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mikec

the gremlins handled it for you.

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Polyphobic

You can also use a wallpaper switcher that will hide all the desktop icons. Of course, that's an all or nothing solution. Active desktop also has the same option to hide all icons.

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