Recycle bin icon

How can I relocate the recycle bin icon to the taskbar, next to the "Start" menu button? I want it to be available even when the screen is fully covered with one or more windows. In Vista this was easy to do, but in W7 the icon will not move via click and drag, alt click and drag, ctrl+shift and drag, etc.

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A. User

Thanks for contacting Microsoft Community.

We appreciate the troubleshooting you did, I understand that you face the problem to create a recycle bin shortcut on taskbar

Add Recycle Bin to Taskbar

The first thing you want to do is create a new shortcut on the desktop.

Now for the location type in or copy and paste the following:

explorer.exe shell:RecycleBinFolder

It should look like this…then click the Next button.

Now name it Recycle Bin or whatever you wish to call it and click Finish.

Now we need to change the icon to the look of the Recycle Bin so right-click the icon and go to Properties.

Click on the Change Icon button.

Type or copy and paste the following into the field for where to look for icons and hit Enter.

%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll

In the new window of icons just scroll over a bit and find the Recycle Bin select it and click Ok.

Click on Apply and Ok to close out of the Recycle Bin Properties screen and you’ll now have your new Recycle Bin shortcut. You can either drag it to your Taskbar or right-click and select Pin to Taskbar.