Halla: Hello everyone, this is Halla with Information Leak with another exciting tutorial not really, but a tutorial nonetheless. Pardon me as I drink my bear. Nord and Prad has asked for a tutorial explaining how to hide the recycle bin from the desktop for whatever reason. So in Windows XP Professional there is a very simple way to doing, in that way is starts like this. First, we go down to the start menu and we select run, which I'll bring into the screen so that you can see it, sorry I am on my laptop so this things kind of terrible. We are going to type in gpedit.msc and click OK, which will open up our administrative tools in XP and I would decide to do that here we are and there is a group policy hence the gp. Now at this point we would go to use a configuration, and once we click on user configuration you can see administrative templates which we going to click there.
And once administrative templates opens up, we should see a couple of different settings one of them being desktop. Okay and as you can see came up here, so here is the desktop, so we are going to click that and if you look through the settings you can see you can do quite a few things you can disable all items on the desktop my documents, my computer, the recycle bin. Now obviously these are available for you to do under the properties in a desktop, just by right clicking but you have this ability here as well which is the recycle bin and you can remove it from the context menu and you click on it tells you the -- the actual settings I'll widen. The window isn't far enough out but you can see has the actual settings where you can configure you know here, so here is remove a recycle bin icon from the desktop so you can just double click on it and it brings up the settings and the settings right now on can figured. But if you enable list it will remove the desktop item, the recycle bin icon excuse me from the desktop that how it's done.
So when I minimize this now in some systems it will require a restart and most system it will require restart but that's pretty much that. With XP Home I believe there is a registry you hack for it which is under I think its user software might, I don't know, I am not exactly sure I have never done it and in windows home version before but it is doable. So, there you have it.
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