August 4, 2007

How to make the Windows XP desktop completely clean?

For all those who hate to keep icons on the desktop

Window XP allows us to completely keep our desktop completely clean, however leaves the Recycle bin. Its like having a wonderful house with a dustbin in the front of the house. The key to remove it is ...

1. Goto the registry.
2. Find the following entry
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/
CurrentVersion/explorer/Desktop/NameSpace"
3. There would be 3-4 entries.
4. Find the one which mentions about Recycle bin
5. Export it to some backup directory - This is a MUST
6. Now delete it
7. Thats it - Recycle bin is gone.

Disadvantage: You cannot see the recycle bin anywhere anymore. (Dont worry, it still exists.) To access it anytime, all you need to do is just double click on the registry file you saved and it appears back.

This info may be very old to all the geeks around, however.

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