How to set security on your Recycle Bin properties?

This tip is very useful to manage the security of Recycle Bin properties because by default everyone can change the recycle bin sittings using windows default rights. If you want to restrict your users to modify these settings, simply edit the "Permissions for BitBucket" and set the read only rights for all users. Using windows registry editor you can set the Recycle Bin rights for all user.

The best technique to edit the windows registry, always backup the whole windows registry keys on backup drive before editing. Because any mistake in Registry can cause serious problem in your computer to run properly.

Follow the given steps to edit computer registry for Recycle Bin properties:


To enable this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with administrative rights.


First click on Start button then type Regedit in Run option.


Here locate the location to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Explorer\BitBucket


Here in left side panel, right click on "BitBucket" keys and click on Permissions option.


Now "Permissions for Bitbucket" dialog box will appear to manage the user's rights.


Here select the user name or group "Everyone" from the list under the "Group or user names" category and then allow read only permissions for selected user under the "Permissions for everyone" section.


Now click on Apply button to save these settings and again click on Ok button to finish the process.


Close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.


To verify these sittings, simply right click on Recycle bin and go to "Properties" dialog box and any changes here will give you a message "You do not have permission to modify the settings for the Recycle Bin".