how do you hide the recycle bin?

[goo-goo-gjoob]

I'm trying to clear all the icons off my desktop, and I can't figure out how to hide the recycle bin. I just want to move it to my documents or somewhere so I can find it easily and still use it, I just don't want the icon on the desktop. Anyone know how to do that? I'm using XP.
Thanks.

[goo-goo-gjoob]

Never mind, I figured it out. All you have to do is right click anywhere on the desktop, "arrange icons by", "show desktop icons" and it hides all of them.

[CommanderJameson]

One thing I do on Windows boxes is turn off desktop icons, but then turn on the relevant toolbar.

Right-click on the taskbar, choose Toolbars, choose Desktop.

Unfortunately, you can't drag things to the bin when it's shown like this.

[zumbruk]

goo-goo-gjoob said:

Never mind, I figured it out. All you have to do is right click anywhere on the desktop, "arrange icons by", "show desktop icons" and it hides all of them.

Eeek! Why would you want to run like that?

[goo-goo-gjoob]

zumbruk said:

goo-goo-gjoob said:

Never mind, I figured it out. All you have to do is right click anywhere on the desktop, "arrange icons by", "show desktop icons" and it hides all of them.

Eeek! Why would you want to run like that?

I just hid all the icons so my background pic would show up nice and uncluttered. I'll just use the start button to access programs.