Windows Vista Blog

How To: Change The Recycle Bins Appearance

July 25th, 2007 by SysAdmin

Following on from the tutorial How to show or hide the recycle bin in Windows Vista I will now show you how to change the recycle bins appearance.

How to change the recycle bins appearance in Windows Vista

• Click Start (Windows Orb)
• Click Control Panel
• Click Appearance and Personalization
• Click Personalization
• On the left side of the Window under the Tasks category click Change desktop icons
• From the list of icons click Recycle Bin (full) or Recycle Bin (empty)
• Click the Change Icon… button
• Select an icon from the list and then click OK

*Note: To restore the Recycle Bin back to its original icon click Restore Default and then OK