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hi,

tried to move recycle bin icon to taskbar but it will not show there. keeps saying its pinned to windows explorer. we want to have a clean desktop. perhaps we are missing something here?

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Hello Msongs,

You can right click on the Recycle Bin and create a shortcut for it, then move that shortcut to the Start Menu All Programs area. Afterwards, you can remove the Recycle Bin icon from the desktop to have a clear desktop.

Hope this helps,
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Solved!

I was as annoyed as you were about this and just now found a perfect workaround to put the recycle bin to the taskbar. So I thought I would go through the trouble of registering to this forum to share it with you.

On this forum I found a way how to get old Quick Launch back:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/888-quick-launch-enable-disable.html

" Quick Launch Toolbar. Windows 7 made an attempt to remove the quick launch. There is still a way to bring it back in current builds. To re-enable it, do the following:

* Right-click the taskbar, choose Toolbars / New Toolbar
* In the folder selection dialog, enter the following string and hit OK:
%userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch
* Turn off the “lock the taskbar” setting, and right-click on the divider. Make sure that “Show text” and “Show title”
are disabled and the view is set to “small icons”.
* Use the dividers to rearrange the toolbar ordering to choice, and then lock the taskbar again. "

After doing this you can easily place recycle bin or any other icon there. The bin works just fine so you can drag and drop anything there to delete it.

:D:D:D
 
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zireael said:
I was as annoyed as you were about this and just now found a perfect workaround to put the recycle bin to the taskbar. So I thought I would go through the trouble of registering to this forum to share it with you.

On this forum I found a way how to get old Quick Launch back:

*** REMOVED ***http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=129792

" 4) Quick Launch Toolbar. Windows 7 made an attempt to remove the quick launch. There is still a way to bring it back in current builds. To re-enable it, do the following:

* Right-click the taskbar, choose Toolbars / New Toolbar
* In the folder selection dialog, enter the following string and hit OK:
%userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch
* Turn off the “lock the taskbar” setting, and right-click on the divider. Make sure that “Show text” and “Show title”
are disabled and the view is set to “small icons”.
* Use the dividers to rearrange the toolbar ordering to choice, and then lock the taskbar again. "

After doing this you can easily place recycle bin or any other icon there. The bin works just fine so you can drag and drop anything there to delete it.

:D:D:D
Click to expand...

Thanks for taking the time to share that with us but as it happens we already have a Tutorial on this ever since it was removed in earlier builds. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/888-quick-launch-enable-disable.html?ltr=Q
 

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His link is to our Brinks own tutorial.
I think he was just indicating to the OP that there was a another alternative than Brinks suggestion.
He could have just left the link, of course, without the copied contents.
 

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