1. Click Start > Control Panel > Appearance and Personalization > Personalization > Change desktop icons.
2. Click to unselect the Recycle bin (or) My Computer check box to remove from the desktop. (OR) Click to select the Recycle bin (or) My Computer check box to restore.
3. Click Apply and OK.

1. Click Start > Run > type gpedit.msc and hit Enter.
2. Now the Group Policy Editor window will be opened.
3. In the left pane, click User Configuration > Administrative Templates > double click Desktop.
4. Now in the right pane, double click Remove Recycle bin icon from desktop (or) Remove My Computer icon on the desktop.
5. Click Setting tab > click Enable to hide (or) click Not Configured to restore > click OK.

How to Remove Write Protection from a USB Drive

• Once downloaded, extract the contents using WinRAR (we will be using WinRAR in future also so make sure you have it installed.) and then right click the .exe file and select "Run as Administrator". You should be at a window like shown below.
  
  
  

• Now click the "Read" button.
• Once the read operation is complete, click the "Backup" button and you will be asked to save your file somewhere. Save it in a safe place and also keep a backup of the file as this is the original bios file. Your backup is now complete.

• Make a copy of your bios file that we made in the previous step and name it "44CN43WW.fd"
• Windows will ask if youre sure that you want to change the extension of the file. Click Yes.
• If Windows did not ask you that, make sure you did not name it as "44CN43WW.fd.rom". You need to change the extension of the file as well.
• Now our bios uses the Insydeh20 framework so we need an Insydeh20 editor. You can download it from here.
• Download the Ezh20.zip file and extract it.
• Right click the EZH20.exe file and select "Run as Administrator".
• In the EZH20 window, select File -> Load file and select the renamed "44CN43WW.fd" file.
• It will show you the files properties. Click Ok.
• Now go to Components -> Logo and you should be presented with the windows as shown below.
  
  
• You should click the "Image Information" drop-down and select the JPG(1024*768) option.
• Now in the "Logo Image To Load" section, click "Browse" and select the image file you need to use. (Scroll down for a few splash screen images I made in the correct format or go to the next section to know how to make your own image as using incorrect format will damage your BIOS.)
• Now click on "Patch" and wait (do not click or move anything at all) till it completes. It should say "FD file modify finished" on the bottom left.
• Now select the option File -> Save and wait till it says "FD file save data finished" on the bottom left.
• Now you can close the window. You have finished replacing the splash screen.

 

• Open Photoshop and select the File -> New option with the below settings exactly.
  
  
• Create whatever artwork you like, taking note that the right bottom corner will get cut off a little so dont put anything much in the right bottom.
• Do not make your artwork too complex and avoid gradients or using too many colors. The flatter the colors the better. This is because the image file size must not be too high. If it becomes too high, there wont be enough space on the EEPROM chip where the BIOS is saved and it might corrupt your BIOS making it unable to boot. So just keep your artwork as minimal as possible.
• Now you must resize your image to 1024x768 px (to avoid stretched look, we work on 1366x768 px and resize to 1024x768 so that even though the output after this step will look stretched, when booting it will look normal.)
• To resize, go to Image -> Image size and in the dialog box, untick "Constrain proportions" checkbox (Important) and in width box enter 1024 and leave the height box at 768.
  
  
• Choose the option File -> Save As and select any name for your image file and select the format as "BMP" from the drop-down menu.
• On the next dialog box, choose 16 Bit as color depth and Windows mode as shown below.
  
  

• Go to the Lenovo Download Center to download the BIOS flash utility. or Here
• Ignore the fact that it says "for Vista 32 bit". It works on all OS above Vista and both on 32 bit and 64 bit systems. Im using a Windows 8 x64 system.
• Right click the file "1DCN26WW.exe" If you have WinRAR installed, you shoud see "Extract to 1DCN26WW" option, select it. (This is the step people usually go wrong at. You must use WinRAR to extract the exe. ) If you dont get the option when you right click, open WinRAR and browse to the exe and then extract it.
  
  
• Open the newly created "1DCN26WW" folder.
• Delete the file "1DCN26WW.fd".
• Copy the modified BIOS file "44CN43WW.fd" into this folder.
• Now make sure your laptop is charged more than 30% AND ALSO connected to a charging port via the AC adapter. Otherwise the Flashing utility will NOT start. Also make sure not even one window is open as it will cause problems when the laptop tries to automatically restart.
• Right click "InsydeFlash.exe" and select "Run as Administrator".
  
  
• Click OK to flash your BIOS. Do not touch your track-pad, mouse or keyboard until the laptop completes the automatic restart.