How to make invisible icons?

severedsolo said:

why dont you just go right click>view>uncheck show desktop icons ?

Because I like knowing that I have any desktop icons, use the desktop for temporary holding.

Make a folder on the desktop and give it that name

Bin.{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

Then try to hide that.

notsograymatter said:

I tried it myself and the Recycle Bin just won't go invisible. The only thing I can think of is hiding it permanently via one of the other options then creating an invisible folder on the desktop via my method. Now create a task in Task Scheduler that transfers the contents of that folder to the Recycle Bin at regular intervals.

What are you doing graymatter? Are you changing the Recycle Bin icon from the personlization - desktop icons settings menu? Are you changing both the full and empty icons? If so I dunno, if not try that.

:IIIII

When I try to empty the recycle bin with the invisible icon, the option is greyed out. When I change the "full" icon to the default it will let me empty again - is there a way to fix this? It's not too much of a trouble, I like to keep my bin empty.