Yes, I'm on XP...but the recycle bin is the only icon I wanted to remove. I have five other icons that I would really like to keep

Perhaps I should consider adding those other icons to the dock as well...but if anyone else knows of another way to do it, I would appreciate it!

thanks for the tip Hus!

Do you have Desktop X 2?

nope........

...this ain't good !! If you want to lose your 'Registry Virginity' over this then here goes:

Only one of those entries will probably show. Using Regedit drill down to the value listed above and change the "0" to a "1" and exit. You will have to re-boot for it to take affect.

The safest way to avoid a disaster is : when you get to 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons' right click and hit export. Name it whatever you want and save it to a temp file. If anything you change after that gets screwed up just double click the saved file and it will restore original settings....do not change anything until you have done this.....Good luck.....

Dealing with the Registry is sorta' like a rite of passage......at one time or another we all get porked by it


BTW: I don't know what you have installed, so you may show both....try just changing 'NewStartPane' first and see what happens.....




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ahhh....this is where the fun starts...leave 'Classic' alone. Change all 4 entry values to "1"

This is because of what you have (and don't have) installed.....leave the 'StartPanel' alone and change 'Classic' to "1"

Hold on.......

If you are using just the classic XP then simply (!!) make a new DWORD-Value (in the 'Classic') with the name "{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}" & 'Modify' Value "1". Leave everything else alone

Make the change in 'StartPanel'. Maybe MS doesn't know the difference between Desktop and start panel .......



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Hi China.......