Some people are paranoid about how clean their desktops look, and
would rather not have icons like My Computer, My Documents, etc. on it.
Now removing these is easy—just rightclick on the Desktop, select Properties
> Desktop > Customize Desktop, and then uncheck all the boxes
corresponding to the icons you don’t want. But what about the Recycle Bin?
This one’s a tougher nut to crack.

Go to the Registry Editor, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\
Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\.
Look for the key {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} and delete it.
Of course, you may want to just rename the Recycle Bin instead of
deleting it altogether. In this case, you should navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache and

change the value
of @C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHELL32.dll,-8964
to whatever you want.