{"id":20900,"date":"2025-09-14T10:37:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T10:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=20900"},"modified":"2025-09-14T10:37:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T10:37:51","slug":"add-recycle-bin-to-this-pc-in-windows-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/add-recycle-bin-to-this-pc-in-windows-11\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Add Recycle Bin to This PC in Windows 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

How do I have File Explorer display Recycle Bin? How can I access the Recycle Bin without using the desktop icon? Previously we’ve covered a way to add Recycle Bin to the navigation pane of File Explorer<\/a>, which continues to work with with latest version of Windows 11. Here you’ll learn how to pin Recycle Bin to Quick Access or the “This PC” location on Windows 11.<\/p>\n

Method 1: Pin Recycle Bin to Quick Access<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Right-click the Recycle Bin<\/strong> icon on the desktop and select “Pin to Quick access<\/strong>” from the context menu.\n

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  2. You’ll immediately see the “Recycle Bin” option appear in the left panel of File Explorer.\n

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    Method 2: Add Recycle Bin to This PC<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Open Registry Editor<\/a>, copy and paste the following path in the address bar at the top, and press Enter.
      \nHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\MyComputer\\NameSpace<\/code><\/p>\n

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    2. Right-click NameSpace<\/strong> in the left panel and choose New<\/strong> -> Key<\/strong>.\n

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    3. Give the new key the name: {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}<\/strong>.\n

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    4. Close out of Registry Editor. Click This PC icon on your desktop to open File Explorer, and you’ll see the Recycle Bin icon listed next to your drives.\n

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      That’s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      How do I have File Explorer display Recycle Bin? How can I access the Recycle Bin without using the desktop icon? Previously we’ve covered a way to add Recycle Bin to the navigation pane of File Explorer, which continues to work with with latest version of Windows 11. Here you’ll learn how to pin Recycle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4713],"tags":[5412,5411,5409,5410],"class_list":["post-20900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-11","tag-access-recycle-bin-file-explorer","tag-pin-recycle-bin-to-quick-access-windows-11","tag-recycle-bin-file-explorer-windows-11","tag-windows-11-add-recycle-bin-to-file-explorer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20909,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20900\/revisions\/20909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}