Tweak Library – Customize InfoTip of “Recycle Bin”.

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Customize InfoTip of “Recycle Bin”.

This setting can be used to customize the text information given with InfoTip of “Recycle Bin”.

Tweak for : Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista

Description:

Generally, InfoTips are used to display advanced item information. When mouse is hovered over “Recycle Bin” icon on Desktop or Windows Explorer, a short text is displayed corresponding to it in a yellow box. This useful information is brief detail on “Recycle Bin”. To change the default information on “Recycle Bin” use this registry setting.

For this, go to Start > Run menu, enter “regedit” and navigate to the registry path listed below. Now, right-click and modify the Expandable String value “InfoTip” with the text content that you want to appear as “Recycle Bin” InfoTip.

Important:
We recommend that you copy the data of the “InfoTip” value in a .txt file and keep it at a safe location, so that you may recover it when required.

However, if you want to get the default value back, replace the data with saved contents.

The changes take effect after a restart or logoff.

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Registry Entry Details:

Registry Entry 1 :

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\]

Key Type :

Local Machine

Value Name :

InfoTip

Data Type :

REG_EXPAND_SZ (Expandable String Value)

Enabled Value :

Disabled value :

Other value :

Customized InfoTip of Recycle Bin

Value Action :

Modified

Steps ScreenShots:

Apply registry settings according below given steps of screenshots with related changes.

New Tooltips for 'Recycle Bin' is created.

Default Tooltip for 'Recycle Bin' is visible.

New Tooltip for 'Control Panel' is created.

Default Tooltip for 'Control Panel' is visible.

First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit".

Go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\],right-click on "InfoTip" and click on 'Modify'.

Enter the value " User Defined Tool tip which you want to shown" without quotation in the text box and click on 'OK'.

Go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\CLSID\{85BBD920-42A0- 1069-A2E4-08002B30309D}\],right-click on "InfoTip" and click on 'Modify'.

Enter the value " User Defined Tool tip which you want to shown" without quotation in the text box and click on 'OK'.

Go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\CLSID\{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}\],right-click on "InfoTip" and click on 'Modify'.

Finally, enter the value " User Defined Tool tip which you want to shown" without quotation in the text box and click on 'OK'. Once you are done. Exit from registry. After a restart or logoff, the changes take effect.