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How to change the Recycle Bin icon
Method 1
- Download the two icons ending with
empty.ico
and full.ico
- Open the the Settings app and go to Personalization > Themes > Desktop Icon Settings > Change Icon and Apply Icons
- Change the icons for Recycle Bin (full) the icon ending with
full.ico
and Recycle Bin (empty) with empty.ico
- Open Registry Editor and go to HKey_Current_User > Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Explorer > CLSID > {645FF...} > DefaultIcon
- Click on each file (Default, empty, and full) and in the Value Data add a comma and 0 at the end after .ico and hit okay (it will look like
.ico,0
)
Credits: https://reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/uvtdbx/cat_bin/i9nn1pq/
Method 2
- Download the
RecycleBinThemes.ps1
file
- Right click the file > Run with Powershell
Contribution
- Fork the repo
- Make directory with the name of your icon theme, inside the
themes
directory. Make sure to have the following file structure:
your-theme-name/
├── your-theme-name-empty.ico
├── your-theme-name-full.ico
└── preview.gif
- Add your theme name to the
RecycleBinThemes.ps1
file to the $supported_themes
array
- Create GIF of your theme in action. Make sure you set the your wallpaper to the color
#2d7d9a
. This is so that all the previews have a similar style.
- Send a pull request :)