Back in the day, I dinked around with the Windows registry, and found one value under the Recycle Bin CLSID key that you can change a couple of flag bits, to enable Rename and even Delete in the right click context menu of the Recycle Bin, and both actually work LOL!

Once the Recycle Bin is deleted though, it doesn’t just stop working, it just disappears from the Desktop, and can only be restored in another area of the registry under the Desktop NameSpace key by adding the Recycle Bin CLSID back.

Definitely not safe, so very understandable that Microsoft (before the slop era of course) would disable deletion of the Recycle Bin. I have no idea why they’d also disable the ability to Rename the Recycle Bin though, I’d always enable that flag bit, so I could rename it to Shit Can Hahaha!

Ah, so Windows 95 is still safe? 👍

Class Identifier {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} (Recycle Bin) did not appear until Windows 95. I’m pretty sure they should be referring specifically to Windows 11, as it’s still receiving updates.

All seriousness aside, let me inform you that if you install any variation of the Calmira Shell in Windows 3.11, and indeed it does actually come with an equivalent Recycle Bin functionality, though it wasn’t programmed by M$, so you should be safe 👍

Anyways, M$ seems to have shot themselves in both feet in recent years, so I recommend you throw Windows into the Trash (don’t recycle), and install Linux instead…

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At the rate we’re going, humans will either be extinct by then, or people will only know how to read and write in hieroglyphics emojis…