deborah-w32 / recycle-bin-themes

Silly icons for the Windows Recycle Bin

Windows Recyclebin Themes

Inspired by this Reddit post by u/DARKplayz_

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Patrick Star

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Pop Cat

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How to change the Recycle Bin icon

1. Download the two icons ending with empty.ico and full.ico
2. Open the the Settings app and go to Personalization > Themes > Desktop Icon Settings > Change Icon and Apply Icons
3. Change the icons for Recycle Bin (full) the icon ending with full.ico and Recycle Bin (empty) with empty.ico
4. Open Registry Editor and go to HKey_Current_User > Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Explorer > CLSID > {645FF...} > DefaultIcon
5. Click on each file (Default, empty, and full) and in the Value Data add a comma and 0 at the end after .ico and hit okay (it will look like .ico,0)

Credits: https://reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/uvtdbx/cat_bin/i9nn1pq/

Contribution

1. Fork the repo
2. Make directory with the name of your icon theme, inside the themes directory. Make sure to have the following file structure:

your-theme-name/
├── your-theme-name-empty.ico
├── your-theme-name-full.ico
└── preview
    └── your-theme-name.gif  

4. Create GIF of your theme in action. Make sure you set the your wallpaper to the color #2d7d9a. This is so that all the previews have a similar style.
5. Send a pull request :)