Most of the files that you delete are send to the Recycling bin. This helps you to recover files that you delete by mistake. On the other hand there are different files that are not send to the Recycling bin but are instantly deleted, so that you can not recover them from the Recycle bin.

If you delete a program through the “Add or remove programs” option in the Control panel or just uninstall a program, then all the files that will be deleted won't be send to the Recycling bin.

When you delete files in the MS-DOS prompt then they are instantly deleted and not copied to the recycling bin because the recycling bin is not a MS-DOS program.

You also won't be able to recover files from the Recycling bin if you delete them from a floppy disk or a USB key or any other removable drive. The Recycling bin is connected only to the hard drives on your computer and so does not store any of the files that you delete from other drives, so you need to be really sure when you delete files from such drives.The same goes for files that you delete from a network drive, so if you work on a home network take caution when you delete files.

The last kind of files that are not send to the Recycling bin are really big files. The Recycling bin has a set size. This means that the recycling bin will not get bigger than the allocated disk space. If the file is bigger than the set size of the recycling bin then Windows will alert you that the file will be instantly deleted and you will not be able to recover it. You can change the allocated disk size for the recycling bin if you right click on the recycling bin and click on “properties”. Now you can set the size of the bin as a percentage of the size of your disk(s). The default percentage is 10%, but if you often delete files that are bigger than this and you would like them to be send to the recycling bin, then you should change the size, but do not make it too big, because you will loose the empty space on your disk.

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