6th February 2001

Coming from the "Registry Recycling" Department, Lockergnomie Tom Edwards broke the code for a Windows 98 shortcoming. Right-click on "My Computer" and select the Rename option. Wow! That was fun. Now, right-click on "Network Neighborhood" icon and do the same thing. I'm cuckoo for customization! Okay, right-click on your "Recycle Bin" and... wait a second. Where's the option to rename? It ain't there! Fire up REGEDIT.EXE and navigate your way to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Classes \ CLSID \ {645FF040 - 5081 - 101B - 9F08 - 00AA002F954E} \ ShellFolder. Double-click the "Attributes" value and change its number... AFTER you backup the key, of course. Enter "50010020" (sans quotes) for the "Rename" option only, "60010020" for "Delete" only, and "70010020" for adding both the "Delete" and "Rename" menu functions. My suggestion? Stick with 50010020. And don't even try to use 90010020... because it won't work.