re: Recycle Bin REALLY is messed up
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 at 11:29 am
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by alex
(2810 messages posted)
Merge this if you want to.This is how I modified the registry.But I am still with
the good old XProSP2.Don't know if the icons in Vista are the same.I use my own icons
anyway.In Regedit modify the paths to point to your custom icons wherever you keep
them as shown below.
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}]
@="Garbage"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\DefaultIcon]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,73,00,68,00,\
65,00,6c,00,6c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,33,00,31,00,00,\
00
"Full"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,\
00,25,00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,73,00,\
68,00,65,00,6c,00,6c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,33,00,32,\
00,00,00
"Empty"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,\
00,25,00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,73,00,\
68,00,65,00,6c,00,6c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,33,00,31,\
00,00,00
"infodefault"="%SystemRoot%\\System32\\shell32.dll,31"
"infoempty"="%SystemRoot%\\System32\\shell32.dll,31"
"infofull"="%SystemRoot%\\System32\\shell32.dll,32"
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this is a custom made DLL.
"Infoc empty"="%SystemRoot%\\System32\\3myicons.dll,5"
"Infoc full"="%SystemRoot%\\System32\\3myicons.dll,20"
"Infoc default"="%SystemRoot%\\System32\\3myicons.dll,20"
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On Tuesday, June 22, 2010 at 6:03 am, Stephen Scheppele wrote:
>I can not empty the recycle bin by clicking the "Empty the Recycle Bin" button in
>Explorer. Also, the desktop icon always shows full.
>YES! - I have deleted the recycle bin and had it rebuild
>YES! - I even did it from an "Administrator Command Prompt" in DOS.
>YES! - I went to "Personalize - Desktop Icons" and reset them.
>I have tried everything I could find posted on the internet to get my empty icon
>to look normal and have the "Empty the Recycle Bin" button in Explorer work again.
> The Restore button works! I can right click a file in the recycle bin and select
>delete and it goes away. I have even added a "Empty the Recycle Bin" option to
the
>right click menu in Explorer and it works fine. I can choose a different icon for
>Empty Recycle Bin on the desktop, but it NEVER changes! I know all of this is because
>some line is missing in the Registry. I just don't know what line it is. Same problems
>no matter which user is signed on.
>I can use and empty the Recycle Bin, but I find the desktop icon and non-functioning
>button to be ........
>ANNOYING!
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