Here's our Tip for.. May 28, 2002
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Make Your Own Trash Icons
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In the last tip, we showed you how to select a different icon for the Recycle Bin. Now that you know how to make a change, you might like to make your own Recycle Bin icons.

To make your own icons, you can use Microsoft Paint and save the two files (empty and full) as BMP files. Let's say you have Empty.bmp and Full.bmp, both in C:\Stuff. You'd run RegEdit and navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}}\DefaultIcon.

Right-click on Full and choose Modify. Type in

C:\Stuff\Full.bmp

and click on OK. Because there's only one icon in each file, you don't have to specify the icon number. Now right-click on Empty, choose Modify and type in

C:\Stuff\Empty.bmp

Click on OK, and then right-click on Default and modify its entry to read

c:\Stuff\Empty.bmp

Click on OK and the close RegEdit. Restart the computer and check your new icons.

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