subject: Recycle Bin: an Insight by Tech Support Experts [print this page] Recycle Bin: an Insight by Tech Support Experts
We live in world where everything is perishable and whatever we do is not permanent. Our tendency is to control everything around us. Very few of us know that Microsoft decided to keep this concept in its very less known feature of its Operating Systems which is known as Recycle Bin. In this nothing you erase is actually erased and you can get back erased stuff. Sounds interesting right! Let us know what technical support experts have to say.
People hardly talk about Recycle Bin but it is an important feature of an Operating System. Recycle Bin is a folder where Windows stores data. You can try imagining a folder named as" Big Red Garbage Can" and in this folder you store all your favorite movies. This is almost what Recycle Bin' is all about. It is like you would move your favorite movies from My videos' directory My music' directory. What you probably do not know is the process through which Windows deletes the files. When you decide that you do not need a particular file, you most likely select it and press delete. At this time the file is sent to the Recycle Bin and the system restores the erased files' with their names changed and the names that you cannot see. Besides all these the system creates a system file known as info. This info file plus the erased files, tell the system the original names of the file and the exact location before it was deleted.
Most of us wonder what to do with this special folder. Once we delete anything we never want to find it ever. After some day you realize that you want this file back and this is the time when you need Recycle Bin. If this is compared to MS- Dos then Recycle Bin application has two advantages. In MS- DOS when you want to delete a file you need to use the command DEL or for folders RD. You should know that a deleted file in MS- DOS is deleted forever. Without special recovery software you will not be able to retrieve that. Now you do not have to feel sad because Windows Vista has special feature that prevents accidental loss of data which is known as Volume Shadow Copy. Here Recycle Bin is not enough. Previous version of the file is added in the system. What it does is very simple to explain, it takes the snapshot of previous file and folder and when you modify it, the previous version is still there, just incase you need it.
Even tech support experts say that in Windows XP, Recycle Bin' is needed. Any file or folder has two chances here either it is restored back to its original place or erased definitely. Well that is still not all. With special software you can still undelete the deleted files. You can recover anything that you thought was lost. Only a computer geek can do this but an average user fails to do this. Even if you are formatting the drive, all the files are still there. Every time you press delete, Windows crosses down the beginning of the file on the hard-disk so Windows thinks that it has free space. Windows overwrites files after files as many times you delete the data from a specific hard drive location.
