Small Helpers

I have one damned habit, every time when I see the full Recycle Bin my hand automatically cleans it:( Some times ago this habit caused a big embarrassment for me. I work at alien PC in office where works my friend. I emptied recycle bin automatically…

Probably you won’t believe me, but there are some kind of people who store important documents in recycle bin So it was very bad situation for me… Of course all was ok at the end. But it cost me some money and a few hours of time. I used  data recovery tool to restore all deleted files. There were really important documents.

After that I have decided that I should get rid of this habit (Additionally this take off a few seconds every day). First of all I should hide the recycle bin icon from my desktop. There is no standard way to do this in Windows. But I (and I hope you too) is advanced user, am i correct? So I found way to do this.

1. Click on the Start Menu and go to Run (or just press Win+R, save one second!).

2. Type in regedit and hit Enter.

3. Navigate to the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace (you can press first letter of branch name for faster navigation)

4. Do you see {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} branch? Create backup at first, right-click NameSpace and select Export.

5. Delete  the {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} branch or just rename it to OLD-{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}   (I think that rename is a good idea - in this case you can easy restore it)

6. Right-click your desktop and select Refresh. There is no the Recycle Bin icon more!:)

Note: This won’t delete your Recycle Bin at all, all deleted files will be deleted to it in any case. You just don’t see it at your workspace.

But there is one problem. Sometimes you should empty your Recycle Bin. So, I recommeded you to do the following focus (I use this way):

Before you hide off your Recycle Bin try to move it to your Quick Launch Bar. Just drag and drop it. After that you will have the shortcut to Recycle Bin in your Launch Bar as a small icon. You can use it to Empty your Recycle Bin. It’s easy

If you want to get back your Recycle Bin icon. Just create branch {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace . if you have deleted it. Or rename it to original name.

Don’t forget to add this article to bookmark, suddenly you want to restore your Recycle Bin icon;)