Hide and Remove Vista Recycle Bin Text Wording on Desktop

Recycle bin icon, when configure to show on Windows Vista desktop, will always have a line of text “Recycle Bin” as description below the icon. However the recycle bin icon image is pretty easy to recognize as the design of the recycle bin is almost the same across all old and new version of Windows. In this case, users may opt to remove or hide the descriptive text “Recycle Bin” that is displayed below the Recycle Bin icon to clean up the desktop.

In Windows Vista, to remove the Recycle Bin text under the icon is easy, by simply renaming it to empty space.

  1. Right click on the Recycle Bin icon.
  2. Select “Rename” from the right click context menu.
  3. Press Space key, and then press Enter to make the change effective.

Recycle BinRecycle Bin without Text
Before and after changes to Recycle Bin

Users can also make the changes of text from registry key. To hide the text of Recycle Bin on desktop leaving only the icon, simply download this registry registration file - HideRecyleBinText.reg - and double click on it to apply the new registry value. Confirm any UAC elevation warning. After the patch, refresh the desktop to see the new text-free Recycle Bin.

To revert back to the original value where Recycle Bin is matched with corresponding text, download and apply this registry file - ShowRecycleBinText.reg.

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