Registry Editing Tips

More Recycle Bin Fun

The Recycle Bin is a funny thing - it has a lot of limitations compared to other normal icon. But we discovered that you can do all sorts of weird things with the context menu. This tip will only show you how do fool around with the context menu of the icon and and appearance of the icon. What you can do with it we are not so sure.

Open up the registry editor and go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ShellFolder.

• Add Rename to the menu, change Attributes to 50 01 00 20
• Add Delete to the menu, change Attributes to 60 01 00 20
• Add both Renamme & Delete to the menu, change Attributes to 70,01,00,20

Restore the Recycle Bin to Windows defaults including un-deleting the icon after deletion, go to

• To Restore the icon, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} and add a key named Recycle Bin
• To reset Windows defaults, go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ShellFolder and change Attributes to 40 01 00 20

And some more practically useless edits to the context menu go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ShellFolder

• Add Copy to the menu, change Attributes to 41 01 00 20
• Add Cut to the menu, change Attributes to 42 01 00 20
• Add Copy & Cut to the menu, change Attributes to 43 01 00 20
• Add Paste to the menu, change Attributes to 44 01 00 20
• Add Copy & Paste to the menu, change Attributes to 45 01 00 20
• Add Cut & Paste to the menu, change Attributes to 46 01 00 20
• Add all Cut, Copy & Paste to the menu, change Attributes to 47 01 00 20

The above edits are more to the fun side than useful but the Rename & Delete can be quite useful sometimes. You don't have to worry about deleting it since you can always call it back.

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