Recycle Bin - Fix For Custom Icons Not Refreshing

How to Fix Custom Recycle Bin Icons Not Automatically Refreshing​

   Information

The Recycle Bin provides a safety net when deleting files or folders. When you delete any of these items from your hard disk, Windows places it in the Recycle Bin and the Recycle Bin icon changes from empty to full.

Sometimes, when using different custom icons for both the Full and Empty Recycle Bin, the icons will not change to the proper icon when filled or emptied, unless you manually refresh the Desktop.

This will show you how to fix the refreshing problem when you use custom icons for the Recycle Bin in Vista and Windows 7.

   Tip

To use custom icons for the Recycle Bin, see this tutorial here - Desktop Icons - Add or Remove

   Note

• If you change one or both icons to different ones after you have applied the changes in Regedit, you will need to apply the registry changes again for the new ones
• Removable drives do not use or have a Recycyle Bin. Files deleted from removable drives are permanently deleted instead.

Here's How:
1. Open the Registry Editor by going to the Start Menu and typing in Regedit. Click yes for UAC prompt.

2. Navigate to-

HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/CLSID/{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}/Default Icon

3. In the right hand pane, double click on the (Default) string, and change the entry from this - %USERPROFILE%\Icons\blackhole.ico to this %USERPROFILE%\Icons\blackhole.ico,0
NOTE: Instead of blackhole.ico, you will have your custom icon file name instead.

4. Click OK.

5. Repeat Step 3 for the empty and full string entries as well. When done, it should look like this -

6. Close Regedit and the changes should apply without having to log off and on or restart. You can try it out by deleting something when it's Empty, and see if it changes to the Full custom icon.



That's it.
Airbot

Related Tutorials

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• How to Fix the Default Recycle Bin Icon Not Refreshing when Emptied
• How to Change the Recycle Bin Storage Size in Vista and Windows 7
• How to Fix Corrupted Recycle Bin in Windows

 

[cocatfan]

Thank you. Great work. Not sure if I will do it, don't want to mess things up but I will look into it. If I try it and it works I will let you know.

 

[MIKLO]

Recycle icons

Hello Miklo,

If you like, upload the icons you are using for your Recycle Bin, and I'll be happy to test them on my system to see if there may be an issue with them.

Where do you have the icons saved at on your system? This way I'll test using the same to get the best test results.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/9733-screenshots-files-upload-post-seven-forums.html
In addition, see if the tutorial below may be able to help if you have not already.
Recycle Bin
Hope this helps for now,
Shawn

Shawn very cool thanks so much,I have had the icons in many places Sys32,SysWOW64,also on my USB Hard drives,I put them all over the place out of frustration lol,I also used reshacker and put them in imageres.dll with no help and it seem to cause other problems.BTW thanks again its really cool of you to do this, and hopefully you see something Im doing wrong or I missed doing.I have also used other icons and same thing,even refresh doesn't always change them only a rest will work every time.
MIKLO

 

[Brink]

I would need the actual .ico files themselves instead. You could place them in a ZIP file, and upload them if you like.

 

[MIKLO]

I would need the actual .ico files themselves instead. You could place them in a ZIP file, and upload them if you like.

Ooops sorry,I saw I couldn't send .ico files so I sent as png,didn't think 2send as .zip. Thanks again,

MIKLO

 

[Brink]

@MIKLO

The icons would look better if they were 256x256 pixel Vista style icons instead of 96x96 pixel.

The Recycle Bin didn't automatically change with your icons until I did what was in the tutorial on the first page to add ,0 at the end in the registry.

Do you have the icons saved in say your Pictures library or folder?

 

[MIKLO]

@MIKLO

The icons would look better if they were 256x256 pixel Vista style icons instead of 96x96 pixel.

The Recycle Bin didn't automatically change with your icons until I did what was in the tutorial on the first page to add ,0 at the end in the registry.

Do you have the icons saved in say your Pictures library or folder?

Shawn,
WOW dude thank you so much for your hard work doing this How lame of me I really apologize, I had the "0" in the registryat one time but was changed after a restore but the ICON size was in fact 96 as you know. Whats really bad is when I looked in my files I had the correct size just not in correct place, I sure spent a lot of time spinning my wheels and then wasted your time on a simple lame mistake I should have seen. Again Im sorry to waste your valuable time but Im really happy to finally have this problem solved. Im sure to some it doesnt seem like much of a problem but it just annoyed me,
I often say Im smarter than the machine but in this case it was you that is smarter than the machine. I can't thank you enough.... very cool of you to help. Thanks again so much
With Respect,
MIKLO

 

[Brink]

You're most welcome Miklo.

 

[TomHartwald]

That's all following Murphy's Law: "Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong."

Btw, forgotton (re-) patches :

I write down every patch and every installed program with date and location
in a simple text file, not stored on the C: drive.

So in case of restoring a backup, I can look up what patches/programs I now
had to reinstall.

Regards,
Tom.

 

[MIKLO]

That's all following Murphy's Law: "Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong."

Btw, forgotton (re-) patches :

I write down every patch and every installed program with date and location
in a simple text file, not stored on the C: drive.

So in case of restoring a backup, I can look up what patches/programs I now
had to reinstall.

Regards,
Tom.

Good point and something I have not been doing as I should, but after this I take time to do cuz is very important, and in this case embrass 4me.:haha: but very cool when there are people willing to take time and check work to find mistake like Brink has done 4me.
MIKLO

 

[darthpenguin]

Thanks! This worked perfectly. I now have working custom icons for my Recycle Bin which I have renamed to "Emergency Inelegance Incinerator"

 

[Paston]

Just wanted to say TY Airbot for that walkthrough. Now all i have to do is figure out why my damn pc randomly stops showing as being connected to the internet even when it is.

 

[PamelaLynn]

thank you

it work perfectly

 

[DizzyMoose]

Worked on Windows 10. Made an account just to say thank you

 

[Edward 066]

Thanks, it works on Windows 10 too

 

[markaz]

After all these years and the solution still works perfectly. Thanks to Sevenforums.com.

 

[sirswig]

Does not work Win 7 PRO x64 with ,0

NEVERMIND! Fixed. The registry key needs to be EXPANDABLE STRING

Revision: When I delete, it works and changes the icon right now. When I Empty Recycle Bin, it does not work.
This does not work for me with a ,0 at the end in registry:

 

[axalex95]

Thanks BOSS, i have searched a lot of time to find this thing! Thx A Lot