How to Change the Recycle Bin Themes
Download the two icons ending with empty.ico and full.ico
Open the the Settings app in windows and go to Personalization > Themes > Desktop Icon Settings > Change Icon and Apply Icons
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Change the icons for Recycle Bin (full) the icon ending with full.ico and Recycle Bin (empty) with empty.ico
Open Registry Editor and go to HKey_Current_User > Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Explorer > CLSID > {645FF…} > DefaultIcon
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Click on each file (Default, empty, and full) and in the Value Data add a comma and 0 at the end after .ico and hit okay (it will look like .ico,0)
![](https://softspro.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/image-16-1024x504.png)
and then Close.
If the Recycle Bin not Empty, it will shows as below:
![](https://softspro.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/image-17-1024x388.png)