Most users didn’t like the Recycle Bin icon in the new Windows 10, if you’re one of those and want to change it to the one looks like in Windows 8 or Windows 7, here is what you’ve to do and you should be using a dual boot or triple boot system with any one of those Windows versions installed.
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Change Recycle Bin Icon in Windows 10
1. Right click on the desktop, select Personalize > click on ‘Change desktop icons’,
2. Select ‘Recycle Bin(full)’ and click ‘Change Icon’, click ‘Browse’ and navigate to Windows 8 installed drive, Windows > System 32 and select imgres.dll and click open, find and select ‘Recycle Bin (full)’ icon and click ‘OK’.
3. Similarly, select ‘Recycle Bin (empty)’ icon in Windows 10 and follow the same procedure to change it.
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What’s your take on this tip? Have you found it useful?
Though the new recycle bin icon is not that bad but still this is a remarkable guide to change the icon.
Thanks for sharing.
You’re welcome Rahul.
I just copied and renamed imgres.dll from the previous build and changed the Recycle Bin icons.
That’s fine and glad to know that, but how many users now have previous build or previous build’s imgres.dll available with them to change Recycle Bin icons. There are other ways exist to do this thing, I shared what I did, there might be simpler way of doing it like you mentioned. Anyway thanks for sharing and letting me know anyway.
Doesn’t work in build 10102. Still looking for a solution
You’re still looking to change the RecycleBin icon? Isn’t the one in build 10074 looking good for you?
Followed all of the above but then found mine by clicking browse, double clicking my C:\ drive then windows.old then I clicked windows then system32 and then imageres.dll
You shouldn’t be selecting Windows.old folder its not part of current Windows folder your OS is using.
Windows.old contains previous windows instalaltion files, after upgrade if you’ve not wiped it using Cleanmgr you can downgrade to previous Windows.
Thanks, just used your info. I upgraded to win10 July 1 2016 and really do not like the rectangle bin. went to windows.old, copied imageres.dll to a folder under my documents area. Then navigated to my location, set it to the round clear bin. That way if in future upgrades Win10 wipes windows.old, i’ll still have the old icons. I was surprised it wasn’t in the current Win10 icon list, especially since they claim to be so much more in tune with users.