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Get Rid of the Recycle Bin on your Desktop

Submitted by on Monday, 3 December 200711 Comments

Here is a way to remove the recycle bin from your desktop. This trick help’s people who want to get rid of the recycle bin on the desktop.

 
 
 
 

1. Goto start, Run, Type “gpedit.msc” (Type without quotes)

2. On the left panel, under User Configuration expand the tree Administrative templates

3. Click on the subtree desktop (single click, do not expand it)

4. On the right panel, Select the option-Remove Recycle Bin icon from desktop properties

5. Double click the option, on the settings tab just select the option enabled, press OK & exit the window.

6. Refesh the desktop (press F5), Your Recycle Bin vanishous. If not you need to logout and then re-login.

NOTE: This trick works on Win XP, Vista and Win 7

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11 Comments »

  • smkumaran said:

    It’s well.
    Useful for prfessinals.

  • Rohit said:

    Thx it helps a lot

  • ShadX said:

    Ok, I have to ask… Why would sombody want to delete their recycle bin??

  • siddhant said:

    gpedit.msc command shows
    mmc could not create the snap in.
    have you any solution.

  • iddy said:

    Man ur simply fantastic kip the good info work up, we are very proud of your collections.

    Work very perfectly

  • Jitendra said:

    Really you are genious man
    thanks alot
    you gave us many tricks

  • avinash said:

    u r genious…… but this trick is not working in my computer and im using windows xp.its giving error message failed to initialise.do u have any other solution

  • JohnTabs said:

    HAHAHAHA!!! :D Where can I throw my garbage file? I lost my recycle bin!

  • Ashish Awasthi said:

    This trick is not working on my laptop. I am using windows 7 Homepremium & dis cmd is not finding any item. But your collection is very fantastic.

  • mahajan said:

    but hoe can i get back my recycle bin

  • Srikanth (author) said:

    @ mahajan

    Just undo the above steps to get your recycle bin back.

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