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How does the Recycle Bin in Windows work?

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Mar 15, 202612585 views
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What does the Recycle Bin in Windows actually do? Is it just a glorified folder and a holding place for soon to be deleted files, or does it do something specific? Specifically, are files that are "moved" to the Recycle Bin actually moved on the hard disc, or are just the pointers to the files move…

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The reference is removed, a metadata file is kept in the Recycle Bin to know the original location. In the early days, on Windows 95 and 98 this was located in . On Windows 2000 and later it was renamed to . Since Windows Vista it is now a special f…

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