recycling bin

mastaapiece3,
is there something in particular you'd like to know about the recycling bin?

yea y is it showing that there is somthing in there and then when i go into it it dosnt show anythin? i rgiht click and press delete and it says there are 2 items do i want to delete them and i press yea and it still show there is somthing in the recyling bin

nm i got it

if u acidentally empty ur recycling bin, but want ur data back what do you do?

unless you have a time machine laying around, i'm pretty sure you're outta luck...

well there are programs that allow you to flag files so that once deleted they can be restored within a certain length of time since the resident program makes sure that bit of the harddisk isn't overwritten although is still flagged as deleted, pretty sure Norton utilities had one of those although you can probably find freeware ones if that's got a price tag

Not the case, unless your deleted files have physically been written over. Emptying the recycle bin merely makes Windows add special characters to the filenames of the "deleted" files, which indicates to your OS that the files should be treated as empty space that's available to be written over by other data. What that means is that the less you add data, install programs & so forth after deleting a file, the more chance you have of recovering it.

The Norton application which Perdition mentions (which is also installed with the home edition of Norton AntiVirus) has the effect of preserving deleted files for a longer period of time, as well as making it relatively easy to recover them.

The only freeware undeleting software that I know of is Restoration ( www.geocities.jp/br_kato ).

For the record I am currently trying to help mastaapiece3 Remove a nasty infection, The latest VX2Look2me infection which part of the infection corrupts your recycle bin,