There are two states of the Recycle Bin – one is the Recycle Bin with deleted items, and the other is the empty Recycle Bin. Both states of Recycle Bin have a different set of icons. In this post, we ...

The Recycle Bin icon in Windows is set to display different icons when it is full and when it is empty automatically. If you find that when your Recycle Bin in Windows 11/10 does not refresh but shows ...

Question:<BR><BR>On Windows XP (SP1) change the reycle bin icon to something else. That's fine. However, each time I reboot the recycle bin goes back to it's original icon.<BR><BR>Am I missing ...

After a while you can start to appreciate the beauty of a clean no icon desktop. <BR><BR>Put all of your shortcuts in the awesome XP Start bar and never place icons on your desktop again! Use TweakUI ...

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Have you ever been to a presentation, or worse, a high-profile company keynote, it gets started on an empty Windows desktop showing nothing but the Recycle Bin icon? Hideous. Preferring to keep our ...

PCs have a reputation for being staid and sort of business-like, right? Nah, that’s just an image pushed by a Apple’s famous ad campaign. The truth is, your PC is a blank slate for as much creativity ...

If you’re a Windows user, then you’ll be familiar with the Recycle Bin icon ever since you used your first system. It’s been a mainstay feature that is synonymous with any PC. After all, we all need a ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Windows fans have complained about Microsoft’s use of iconography for years.

Whenever a Windows 10 PC user deletes a file on their computer, it isn't technically gone per se. Sure, the data is no longer in its original location, but it still exists in the recycle bin, allowing ...