Friday, December 2, 2011

14-5

Time to play around with the registry.  Open up the Start Menu and in the search box type in "regedit" and hit Enter.  Time to change the name of the Recycle Bin to Trash Can, but first I'll back up the registry key that I will be editing.  To do so I selected the branch that I want to save, clicked on File, then Export.  In here I made sure I checked the "Selected Branch" option for export, named the file, and selected the RegBackUp folder I created on the desktop seen below.



Time to actually change to name!  The highlighted key above is the one for the Recycle Bin.  Inside the right pane, double click on the key that says (Default) (value not set).  Entered Trash Can inside of Value Data text box.

Then right click on the Desktop and select Refresh.  The Recycle Bin is now the Trash Can.



To undo this, just double click the key that we just changed and delete the string in the Value Data text box and hit OK.  Again, right click on the Desktop and select Refresh.



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