Adding the recycle bin to the taskbar

It is always helpful if you have a shortcut to your Recycle Bin. It could be a little sad when you have to muster an effort and search where your Recycle Bin is, so much so if you are busy with a lot of stuff at the same time.

We first need to create a shortcut and type “explorer.exe shell:RecycleBinFolder” as the location. (See screen shots for reference)

Click on Next, type in the name of the Shortcut (in this case, Recycle Bin) and then click on Finish.
We should now have this shortcut on our Desktop.

But of course, we can do better than this. Let us make it nice by changing its appearance.

To do this, right-click on the icon and then choose Properties. And then on the Shortcut tab, click on Change Icon and then click on OK.

We can now choose the icon; but then again we can make it look even better. Type in “%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll” in the location field.

Now we should have more options of better looking icons for the shortcut that we have created.

I personally picked one for my PC and take a look at its new appearance:

Now, the final step is to pin this into the Taskbar. Just right-click on the icon, choose Pin to Taskbar.

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