Trick to hide and show the Recycle Bin in Windows XP / Vista / 7 desktop

If you like having your desktop to last you have probably hidden the icons included with Windows XP / Vista / 7 on the desktop or replaced by other versions you will have the highest quality custom.

In the case of Windows XP can hide icons from "My Computer, My Documents, My Network Places" and "Internet Explorer" Custom option easily from the desktop to the tab "Desktop", under properties screen.

However, the icon for the recycle bin can not be hidden in this way, the boys from Redmond forgot to put this feature in your operating system.

Today, with this simple trick you as we hide this icon from your desktop and return to make it appear as if necessary. To do this we only need a couple of empty text files.

Open the Windows Notepad or another text editor and paste the following:

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Save with the name hide.reg sure that is saved with the extension. Reg and not. Txt file If you do not see a white icon with a green bin to save test again, putting the name in quotes when you ask the bloc notes.

This small file used to hide the Windows desktop trash. To use it you just double click and accept that you will question the system. The changes will be visible the next time you restart or log off Windows.

We have seen what we do to hide the trash from the desktop, if we wish to show we must create a new file show.reg with the following contents:

See text to copy.

The procedure is the same as in the previous case.

Note that if you hide the trash on the desktop you should put another way to access it. Personally I changed it to a gadget from Windows Sidebar for Windows XP.

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