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@chattanoogabo wrote:
Can someone please help me figure this one out??? We have a desktop theme on our computer that has been on there over a year, for the past few months when we reboot the computer the recycle bin icon changes to a helmet. Why does this happen and how can I stop it? It is annoying.

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That is a flaw with XP: It won't save user settings.

You can try to change the default icon, and it may work for awhile, but stupid windows XP likes to set to icon back to the stupid icon that is the default.

If you know how to make registry edits, you can change the path to the icon and hav it as default.

Or, better yet, get tweakui and hide the recycle bin after making a shortcut to it. Then change the shortcut icon. Both of my methods won't allow you to tell if the recycle bin is open or full, without opening it.


Regedit way:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\DefaultIcon]
(default)="C:\\empty.ico"(example) ("path to your icon")
"Empty"="C:\\empty.ico" (example) ("path to your icon")
"Full"="C:\\full.ico"(example) ("path to your icon")
Also do a search in regedit for
645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E

under HKEY_CURRENT_Users and expand (click on the + sign) and click "default icon"
ALWAYS BACKUP YOUR REGISTRY and Set a system restore point before attempting this.

After you make the changes, go to desktop, and hit f5 on the keyboard

Actually, if you use TweakUI, you can restore the Windows icon cache (which does get corrupted from time to time), Open Tweak UI, left pane click on repair, in the right pane choose Rebuild icons (usually the first entry in the drop down box), click repair now. You might need to reboot for it to take effect.

Thank you for all of your help!!!!!  I will try the things you suggested.