Note: The following information was originally provided by Tipworld.

You can change the icons that Windows 95 uses to represent My
Computer, Inbox, The Internet and the Recycle Bin (full or empty). All
it takes is a little Registry editing (to be safe, back up your
Registry files--System.dat and User.dat--first).

First, open the Registry Editor--select Start, Run, type

regedit

and click OK. Next navigate your way to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ CLSID. Now,
depending on which icon you're after, select the following key:

For My Computer, select:
{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}

For Inbox, select:
{00020D75-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}

For the Recycle Bin icons (full or empty), select:
{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

For The Internet, select:
{FBF23B42-E3F0-101B-8488-00AA003E56F8}

Expand the key you just selected (the one with all the numbers and
letters in it) and inside, select the DefaultIcon key. You'll see the
path of the default icon in the right pane, under Data.

Under Name in the right column, right-mouse-click (Default) and select
Modify. (Note: To change the Recycle Bin icons, right-mouse-click
Empty or Full, depending on the icon you want to change, then select
Modify.) On the Value data line, type the path and number of the icon
you want to use for that desktop item (see format below). For example,
if you were using the tenth icon in the C:\Windows\System\Pifmgr.dll
file, you would type:

c:\Windows\System\Pifmgr.dll, 9

(Remember that the numbering in an icon file always starts with 0.)
Click OK, repeat these steps for each icon you want to change, and
close the Registry Editor. To see your change, click the desktop once
to place the focus there, then press F5 to refresh.

Each of you has different icon files on your system depending on the
applications you have installed. However, all Windows 95 users have
one icon file in common--Shell32.dll. To view this file's contents
(icons), right-mouse-click any folder shortcut, select Properties,
click the Shortcut tab, and click the Change Icon button. Inside the
Change Icon dialog box, you'll see all the icons in Shell32.dll. The
numbering starts at 0 (zero) and moves from left to right. (If you
have IE 4.0 installed, the numbering starts in the top-left corner,
moves down the first row, then to the top of the second row, and so
on.)

To view the contents of another icon file--such as Pifmgr.dll, located
in the Windows/System folder--click the Change Icon dialog box's
Browse button, navigate your way to the file you have in mind, and
double-click it. (Note: If you don't see any DLL files inside the
Change Icon dialog box, open any Windows 95 window, select View under
Options, and on the View tab, select Show all files.)

Roxanne Pierce
R2 Systems, San Diego
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Perez Sent: Monday, June 22, 1998 22:09
>
> There is probably a simple way to do this (I hope), but for
> some reason it escapes me.  Anyway, I'm hoping some of you will lend your
> assistance with this:
>
> How can the Windows 95 Recycle Bin icon be restored to its original
> image (that is short of re-installing Windows 95 itself)?
> Currently, it looks like a dog-earred sheet of paper with the Windows logo in
its
> center.