How To Add Recycle Bin to “My Computer”

Have you ever wanted to add the Recycle Bin to your My Computer screen? Yeah, it’s probably not the most common request, but here’s how to do it anyway with a simple registry hack.

Here’s what we’re talking about… if you wanted to do something more useful, you can also add Control Panel to My Computer as well.
                        

To make this tweak, we’ll be doing a quick registry hack, here are the steps:-
1). Open up regedit.exe through the start menu search or run box, and then browse down to the following key:

                                   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\

Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace

2). Now that you’re there, you’ll need to right-click and create a new key…
3). Name the key with the following text:
                     {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
Once you are done, it should look like this:
                     
4). Now you should be able to hit F5 on your My Computer screen, or close it and re-open.