Delete recycle bin?

[DMGrier]

If I was to delete my recycle bin, then everytime I deleted something where would my trash go?

 

[theshadowxx]

??? how are you planning on deleting it?

right click it, it doesn't give you an option to delete it.

 

[Oakley]

On Windows 7 I think you can or it is Vista, I don't know. I think you can.

 

[deanj20]

Yes - as theshadowxx said - how are you planning to delete it? If you just remove the recycle bin icon from the desktop , then your recycled material still goes to C:\RECYCLER (or wherever it's configured to go).

If you were able to delete that folder (that would take some work as it is a system folder - highly unlikely it would happen by accident - but then, users will always surprise you with the things they do to computers!) I'm not sure what would happen. I imagine you would get an error message saying "Folder C:\Recycler Doesn't Exist!" and your file would be deleted much the same as it was in the old days (gone from the disc directory, but still in the memory until overwritten).

I'll have to try that out sometime. If anyone else knows, I am now interested myself in what would happen!

 

[karen100]

if you dont want your delted files to go to recycle bin that use shift+del to delete a file by doing this the file will be deleted forever

 

[PunterCam]

Yes - as theshadowxx said - how are you planning to delete it? If you just remove the recycle bin icon from the desktop , then your recycled material still goes to C:\RECYCLER (or wherever it's configured to go).

If you were able to delete that folder (that would take some work as it is a system folder - highly unlikely it would happen by accident - but then, users will always surprise you with the things they do to computers!) I'm not sure what would happen. I imagine you would get an error message saying "Folder C:\Recycler Doesn't Exist!" and your file would be deleted much the same as it was in the old days (gone from the disc directory, but still in the memory until overwritten).

I'll have to try that out sometime. If anyone else knows, I am now interested myself in what would happen!

I imagine you simply wouldn't be able to delete anything - all deleting does is move it to the recycle bin, and if it's not there, it won't move.

Completely pointless thing to try.

 

[Bodaggit23]

Your Recycle Bin can not be deleted.

It can only be removed from your Desktop.

If you remove it, like I have, you can still get to it through Windows Explorer.

Right Click on Start, Explore.

Click on Desktop, and voila, there it is.

 

[deanj20]

Completely pointless thing to try.

Well I tried it. Windows just makes a new folder called Recycler. And somehow, I feel better knowing.