The Registry Keys and Their Subkeys

Searching The Registry for a Value

Let's say we want to change the name of our Trash bin back, but we don't know its CLSID. We'll do a search of the Registry.

First, we want to find something distinguishing about it. In this case, say I don't want to do a search for the word 'Trash' because I may have another program, such as an email or Internet browser program, that may have that word somehow associated with it. But that info tip is probably fairly unique.

Open the Registry Editor. When the window opens, click 'Edit' on the Registry Editor's menu bar. Choose Find, and in the 'Find what' text box, type "silly Tweak" (without the quotation marks). To make the search faster, deselect Keys and Values, leaving a checkmark only in the Data box.

The Editor should find the value you want quickly. If the first value that comes up isn't the right one, you would click F3 to continue the search. In this case however, it probably went straight to the right spot.

If you look in the left pane, you will see one of the CLSIDs has an open folder beside it. You just found the CLSID associated with the Recycle Bin. Double click the Default value, and change the name back to Recycle Bin.

Double click the InfoTip value, and change the text back to: "Contains deleted items you can permanently remove or restore." (without the quotes).

Close out of the Registry Editor, click once on the desktop and press F5. Your changes should be visible.