I believe most of you have tried to remove the recycle bin icon from your desktop. Unfortunately, the recycle bin icon doesn’t have Delete item on its context menu. How can we remove the recycle bin icon? This tips will show you how to remove recycle bin icon from your desktop. It’s usable for you who want to remove some icon from your desktop including the recycle bin icon to make some space on your desktop.

Here the steps to remove recycle bin icon from your desktop:

1. Open the run command and type “regedit” (without quotes) then hit Enter to open the Windows Registry Editor.
2. On the Registry Editor windows, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/Desktop/NameSpace
3. Find a key named {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
4. If you find it then remove it.

Now close the Registry Editor and refresh your desktop by pressing the F5 button on your keyboard. The recycle bin icon will disappear from your desktop.

Note:
It’s important to create a backup before removing they that mentioned above. It’s necessary because if you want to restore the recycle bin icon, you just restore the backup. To create a backup please follow these steps:

1. Right click on the key which do you want to create a backup then select export.
2. On the save dialog Windows named the backup and click on the save button.

You have created the backup of the key. To restore it, right click on the backup file and select Merge. The key will store into registry.