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re: 'Rename the Recycle Bin'
Saturday, December 11, 2004 at 10:05 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by CLL
(2 messages posted)
I'm running Windows XP Home with Service Pack 2 and this is what I found.
In the registry, where the directions say to change the "(Default)" key to the name
you want, I found this didn't work. But something they could have changed in SP2
-- There is a value labeled "LocalizedString" that has something like "@%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll,-8964"
in it -- that is the recycle bin's name right there - it gets the name from Shell32.dll.
Don't go modifying the Shell32.dll file -- I have found that simply changing it to
whatever name you want (eg. Scrap Can or whatever you want) without quotes and go
back to desktop, press F5 to refresh, and it should change.
However I do suggest that you rename the "LocalizedString" to "LocalizedString_old"
or something and just make a new "LocalizedString" as a String Value in case something
goes wrong/doesn't work and you need the old value back.
On Thursday, February 13, 2003 at 10:16 am, Adrian Kentleton wrote:
>I have a comment about Rename
>the Recycle Bin:
>(1) There's no option to change the bin's name via the 'Properties' menu item in
>my version of XP Pro.
>
(2) Changing the 'Attributes' to 50 01 00 20 via Regedit (see XP Annoy book
p112)
>doesn't generate 'Rename' option either.
>
Help!
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- 'Rename the Recycle Bin' (Adrian Kentleton: Thursday, February 13, 2003 at 10:16 am)
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