Add the Recycle Bin to the Taskbar in Windows 7
While you are busy multi-tasking on your computer, occasionally feat to the Recycle Bin cans a pain. Now I take a look at a couple of different methods for adding the Recycle Bin to your Taskbar for easier entrance. The initial thing you want to do is make a new shortcut on the desktop. Currently for the location type in or copy and paste the following...
explorer.exe shell:RecycleBinFolder
Now a new window will open, and then click the Next button. Now name it Recycle Bin or whatever you desire to call it and click Finish. Now I need to change the icon to the appear of the Recycle Bin so right-click the icon and go to Properties. Click on the Change Icon button. Type or copy and paste the following into the field for where to look for icons and hit enter...
%SystemRoot%system32imageres.dll
In the new window of icons just scroll over a bit and find the Recycle Bin select it and click Ok. Click on Apply and Ok to close out of the Recycle Bin Properties screen and you will now have your new Recycle Bin shortcut. You can both drag it to your Taskbar or right-click and select Pin to Taskbar. At hand you go! Now you have the Recycle Bin on the Taskbar, and if you want to remove it just unpin it. This gives you another way to quickly access the Recycle Bin while you are busy multi-tasking. Also, you will possibly want to remove the shortcut you made on the desktop. With this method you cannot drag items directly to the icon on the Taskbar, but it lets you open up the bin.
Put in Fully Functional Recycle Bin to the Quick Launch Bar
One neater trick is to add the Recycle Bin to the Quick Launch Bar in Windows 7. Once you have completed that, it is just a matter of dragging the Recycle Bin to the Quick Launch Bar. After that you can start dragging things into the bin on your Quick Launch. If you want to make it larger, unlock the Taskbar and right-click in the Quick Launch Bar and go up to View and select Large Icons. You can play about with it too and move it around anywhere on your taskbar. If you are looking for a way to make the Recycle Bin easily accessible from the Taskbar, this gives you lots of options to tweak it how you are fond of.
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