I suggest naming them, ingeniously, empty.ico and full.ico.
Also take a note of any license and usage limitations: The above icon is fine for personal use, for example, but you wouldn’t want to use it for your commercial theme.ĭownload the empty and full icons in ICO format. These are all available in a variety of formats, but I suggest you pick ICO for the standard Windows icon file format. Since I’m looking for empty and full icons and tend to have fairly tame preferences for mods to my system, I’m going to grab the empty and full recycle bin icons on the right side of row 2 above.
WINDOWS 10 CHANGE RECYCLE BIN ICON BOT REFRESHING ARCHIVE
Icon Archive looks like this:Īs you can see, I’ve already typed in ‘recycle’ for the search. Now hop on over to or your favorite icon repository. I like, but before we go there, let’s just start with our baseline, the default Windows 10 full recycle bin icon: I guess Microsoft decided that since the electrons don’t actually go anywhere, it’s more of a recycling process to make ’em ready for the next storage task. In other operating systems, interestingly, it’s just called the trash can. Think about it: Your current recycle bin icon denotes whether you have pending files ready to “recycle” in that particular special folder (it’s a folder, not a bin!) or whether it’s empty of all “trash”. Your first step is to find a good place to download a few icons, and the recycle bin is a tricky one because you want two matching icons: empty and full. And there are Web sites that are just massive archives of Windows-compatible icons too, so the process is more fun than complicated. Well, a few mouse clicks and some images that you’ve either created or downloaded in the correct format. Icons in a modern graphical interface are just image files in a special format, so it should be no surprise that you can indeed change any of the icons on your system to something else with a few mouse clicks.
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