Recycle bin - how does it work?

[Dehlia]

I'm rather confused how the recycle bin works on my xp home. I have a
folder in each drive called *recycler*, but my trash doesn't end up in
there. What is this *recycler* then?

Dehlia

[Darren Hook [MSFT]]

The Recycle Bin provides a safety net when deleting files or folders. When
you delete any of these items from your hard disk, Windows places it in the
Recycle Bin and the Recycle Bin icon changes from empty to full. Items
deleted from a floppy disk or a network drive are permanently deleted and
are not sent to the Recycle Bin.

Items in the Recycle Bin remain there until you decide to permanently delete
them from your computer. These items still take up hard disk space and can
be undeleted or restored back to their original location. When it fills up,
Windows automatically cleans out enough space in the Recycle Bin to
accommodate the most recently deleted files and folders.

Windows allocates one Recycle Bin for each partition or hard disk. If your
hard disk is partitioned, or if you have more than one hard disk in your
computer, you have a recycle bin for each hard disk.

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<Dehlia> wrote in message ...
> I'm rather confused how the recycle bin works on my xp home. I have a
> folder in each drive called *recycler*, but my trash doesn't end up in
> there. What is this *recycler* then?
>
> Dehlia

[Dehlia]

On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 07:27:13 -0500, "Darren Hook [MSFT]"
> wrote:

[snipped v. useful info]

Thanks Darren. But could you tell me: on each of my partitions I have
a folder which is called *Recycler*. What is this folder for (mine is
now empty)? When deleting a file, this file doesn't end up in this
*recycler* folder, it ends up in the Recycling Bin folder. I now
begin to wonder whether this *RECYCLER* folder might 've been created
not by the o.s. but by some other program - or is it after all part of
XP (it's on each drive's root, the same as *Recycled* was in Win98)?