Secrets of The Windows Recycle Bin

[@ThioJoe]

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[@alitheia_]

@@ThioJoe should make videos for Linux users too

[@dahawk8574]

7:11 - "permanent" ...which is _not_ permanent. Curious that you never so much as hint at this fact.

[@kennystrawnmusic]

6:40 That's the "Delete Permanently" icon. Shows up if you select the Recycle Bin icon on the desktop and press Shift+Del.

[@writerpatrick]

It's located in windows\system32\imageres.dll which comes up by default when you right click to get "properties" and select "change icon."

[@Wildcard71]

The Del key from the navigation block, to be precise.

[@GenX-Gamore]

I just tried this and nothing changed or opened up, Running Win 11 Pro.

[@princegoatcheese9379]

I like how clean the Win7 recycle bin looks. It looks like a high-end all-glass bin, if it was real it would probably cost $199

[@tiagoferreira086]

It's the most good looking for me.

[@RoySATX]

If they were real you'd find them in Apple Stores.

[@TheTweaker1]

it also just looks the most realistic out of all the icons used.

[@Jah_Rastafari_ORIG]

@princegoatcheese9379 In reality it only costs 39.99 at Target. (I checked)

[@Sophia-go3cs]

Yes

[@_SJ]

The Vista/7 icon is my favorite. Clear and neat. It might be funny to say but I like the clean trash can look.

[@xBINARYGODx]

then install a iconpack

[@NazmusLabs]

Win10/11 for me. I like the “frosted glass” look 😊 May Allah (S.W.T.) guide you and bestow upon you His Blessings; Ameen # F R E E P A L E S T I N E

[@FlyboyHelosim]

@@xBINARYGODx I still use Windows 7, so no need!

[@tombuyer1982]

​@@FlyboyHelosim in Jan 14 2020 windows 7 is no longer support

[@Windows-7-2009-i]

Windows 11 and 10 the full looks like theres burnt homework in there

[@moonverine]

I love how so much of Windows's eccentricities is basically "Some dude in 1987 coded it that way on on the fly as a temporary measure, and now it's a core feature of the infrastructure THAT CANNOT BE REMOVED."

[@JmKrokY]

Real

[@jerm1027]

"nothing more permanent than a temporary solution"

[@HerzaPop]

like coconut jpg in tf2

[@boulderbash19700209]

​@@jerm1027 "Nothing more permanent than government temporary programs." - Milton Friedman.

[@jerm1027]

@@boulderbash19700209 The general proverb is more applicable - the quote came after the proverb, and is relation to economics, not technology.

[@danman32]

One thing you were close to pointing out that emptying recycle bin only empties files that you deleted within your login, even when you have administrator privileges. So if there's say 100gb of deleted files but you only deleted 10gb of those, the rest deleted by other users on that system, you'll only recover 10gb of disk space when you empty the recycle bin. Can drive you nuts when managing servers, particularly RDS servers.

[@JmbFountain]

@@danman32 that's why you usually redeploy RDS servers daily or so

[@69k_gold]

Does Storage sense help here? Or does it just rely on the user-based system?

[@abudhabikid]

hey just wanted to say thank you so much for ensuring proper subtitles. great stuff as always!

[@LuisA-sm2on]

Thanks for the video. I am immediately going to enable RECYCLE BIN for my removable drive. I’ve deleted from my back up media and then regretted it. So thank you🎉

[@TheViper4Life]

Still love the Win7 bin. Mainly because I've never been a fan of the entire internet taking on this flat 2D look to it (I believe it's called the Metro style?). I miss the days when everything had this glossy/glassy finish to it and webpages had buttons that looked like they had depth and shine to them. Everything has been so flat and square for so long, I didn't expect it to stick around for as long as it has.

[@louf7178]

"Date Deleted" is nice. Glad it was made.

[@johanponken]

I use that as a part of tracking my activity. In my case it gives a nice helicopter view.

[@hundredfireify]

I thought I knew a lot about windows, but everytime I watch your videos, I actually learn something new. Great

[@sverigeanon0021]

Shift+Delete

[@Techkomsan]

Yes Shift + delete is the best

[@raulgalets]

noooooo. so many things lost to shuft delete

[@vargsvansify]

Honestly can’t remember the last time I used the recycling bin. Shift+Delete for everything for at least two decades.

[@jonathanloeppky]

Pro tip: in order to recycle correctly, one should have a separate bin for glass, plastics, metal, and paper waste. 👍

[@Papa_Ceasar]

I believe many outdated icons will remain in that .dll forever, because in a modern setup they weigh practically nothing and someone somewhere might have set up some kind of dependency on them

[@arghya_333]

This reminds me of that xkcd comic where every application is a jenga tower with the simplest thing at the bottom supporting the entire thing.

[@Aderalls]

Removing them makes no sense, but updating them to the current style might be a good idea. It just looks sloppy encountering NT era icons on old apps

[@fluffsquirrel]

@@AderallsNot gonna lie though, I want them to stay that way forever. It's a reminder of the history of the OS and it looks so pixel-perfect crisp, so much cleaner than modern aliased icons.

[@tbuk8350]

@@Aderalls You mean DOS-era icons? Windows 98 was the last major windows release to use the pre-NT DOS-based kernel. Modern windows is the NT-kernel, and has been since Win2000 IIRC.

[@R.B.]

​@@Aderalls except you didn't know how those might be used. It isn't uncommon to use SHELL32.dll or MOREICONS.dll icons for an application. If Microsoft changed the existing icons, then they might be breaking a third party. Like Unicode ghost characters, ⍼ for example, you might be able to add a new icon to those files, but once there they can't be removed or changed; in the name of backwards compatibility.

[@likebot.]

The maximum size for the Recycle Bin isn't just for one file. It is for the total size of everything you're deleting at one time. Yes, one file over that size will trigger the warning, but two or more smaller files or a folder full of small files that combine to exceed the maximum size will also trigger the warning.

[@ionamygdalon2263]

Imagine if one could put the Recycle Bin in the Recycle Bin - this I came up while reading about Russel's paradox 😂

[@LydiaReiko]

someone installed windows into the recycle bin btw lmao

[@DavidM2002]

The snake eating its tail...

[@monad_tcp]

I think you can, just delete the Recycle bin of another drive by dragging it to the recycle bin if the system drive.

[@eldardb]

I saw it in a short where a dude created a shortcut to the bin and then dragged the real one into the short cut.

[@seanmcmurphy4744]

@@eldardb And it didn't go into an infinite loop? That's disappointing

[@MrJamestreynolds]

I didn't know that in addition to the clsid, there's a "friendly name" version of it. Good info.

[@6ixConfessions]

I still think that Vista was the most visually pleasing of all the Windows systems & I still miss it.

[@futurxotics]

I've always liked the recycle bin icons of Windows Vista/7. Like it's more detailed if that makes sense.

[@deim3]

6:40 red X in the corner of an icon is a code for "destination not available". Probably for rare cases of disk failures where the recycle bin gets corrupted and can't be accessed.

[@interstella0]

i've always liked the windows 7's recycle bin icon. It feels futuristic

[@whaletech07]

Oh yes, the bin, where I throw my rubbish.

[@AnonymousChannel512]

the recycle bin is just bin, but recycle

[@stevencooper2464]

I had a Win 98 computer with two hard drives years ago; I learned the hard way to use the "Empty Recycle Bin" button or menu item rather than manually deleting files from the Recycle Bin, because by manually deleting the files, Windows would just move them to the recycle bin on the other drive; I was literally shuffling deleted files back and forth between the Recycle Bins on the two drives. I wonder if that "bug" still exists.

[@thecoldlemonade3532]

I don't even use Windows why do I watch all his videos

[@rekire___]

Temple bros, is that you?

[@Dark々Samurai]

That's the beauty of it. He is a good creator.

[@_SVPanda_]

Me too bud me too

[@radiorexandy]

He's entertaining!

[@toonedin]

Yo! Bro! Same here.

[@geekytutorials5745]

Keep this series going man!

[@xa3558]

Thank you !

[@yousefslimani99]

Your videos about secret stuff on these windows apps are for n to watch, keep up the good work for more of these 👍🏻

[@starkiller7278]

A thing to note, recycle bin functions normally you press "del" on file in an external HDD. Have to press "shift+del" to permanently delete files from an ext. HDD. And if you didn't notice, win98 & win10 bitbins icon look similar, save for the ♻️ logo . My personal favorite is the Vista/7 icon, maybe coz Win 7 was the 1st os I ever used in a home setting.

[@SingleRacerSVR]

Interesting video ThioJoe, especially for less experienced PC Users. And yes, I still have a personal liking for the Vista/Windows 7 Recycle Bin Icon(s), and saved it & others, so I could still use it to this very day on my Windows 11 PC.

[@jwillisbarrie]

Thanks for adding actual captions for the Deaf.

[@IWearShoes31]

Windows 7/Vista icon is for sure the best

[@Techkomsan]

You are a good creator for Windows user ❤❤

[@PsRohrbaugh]

2/3 things I've known for 20 years, 1/3 things I never knew. Interesting mix!

[@mauinokaoi8747]

damn, all these years ive spent on a computer and never knew this

[@flimflamalama]

I swear to god the max capacity setting used to work as described back in the Windows 7 days and before. I've accidentally lost files I didn't intend to that way by accidentally deleting an entire directory and not being able to restore all of it. I wonder if Microsoft decided to change the behavior without renaming the setting?

[@BakrAli10]

This. The same happened to me I believe in the Windows XP (or was it 7?) era.

[@anreoil]

This setting was and is for the total size of all files in the bin. Author is wrong. It is, however, setting per drive, so if you select drive C in the list and set "100Mb", it means that it will collect the total of 100Mb on drive C, and will delete older recycled files on drive C. It's not, and never been, a setting per file.

[@mp3155]

Finally a good video. Good video Thio! I'll watch the one about the notepad because it's staring at me and I think it'll be interesting and most likely like it. 👍🖐🏼

[@NekoKasane]

My favorite icon is definitely Win2000, because cyan is my favorite color and I like the way it's used for the color scheme. Plus the bin itself looks cool in a retro futuristic fashion.

[@kedharnadh]

Never expected that we can have a full video on the recycle bin ♻️ 🤷‍♂️

[@xeropulse5745]

The recycle bin on removable drives is the default on Mac, and it's actually not a good thing. A LOT of people never realise how it works. I used to work as a junior technician in a mac-based university department, and the amount of people that would send something to the bin, then unplug without emptying the bin, go to another lab, and plug in thinking it works like windows is insane. (Windows by default moves the file from your portable drive to the local PC drive.) Other macs don't recognise the bin from the machine you deleted it on, and by the end of the school year, both staff and students would have a load of used space on their drives, even if they clear everything they can see. The only way to delete these then would be fornatting the drive. If you use say, like 5 different macs in a day, then the next day go back to the lab where you deleted the files and try to empty the portable drive's bin... It may no longer be read, leaving you with these ghost files. I don't know how this works on windows, but if you do activate it, I would make sure to check this unless you always use the same computer.

[@PixyzPrism]

Thanks for clarifying the "max capacity" option

[@jescis]

My favorite is 0:21 "Don't move files to the recycle bin. Remove files immediately when deleted." and the keyboard shortcut "shift+del(delete)" keys that's been a part of Windows since they had a recycling bin in it… I knew about it from Windows 3.1/3.11 but it might have been since 1.0 or something as even Macintosh and any Apple II(more likely the IIGS) computer with a GUI OS had a recycling bin…

[@Kongslien_]

I'm renaming the recycle bin to BitBucket from now on.

[@BD_Gaming2013]

Sarcastically, totally informative!

[@Netsuki]

I once set up Recycle Bin icon to Kirby. Also I knew that the logic behind the Recycle Bin is more or less like what you explained. I didn't know the details, but I knew these files remain in their locations until you actually empty the recycle bin. Btw, because I don't want to have any icons on the desktop, I actually set up shortcut to recycle bin itself. I used to do that as toolbar in the taskbar since Vista or Seven (not sure which one of those), but now I use Fences to have it in one of the fence. The only issue is that the icon doesn't refresh regularly and I can't press F5 to refresh it either.

[@MegaGeorge1948]

I like the Vista/Win 7 icon recycle bin. Because the trash files can be seen better though the transparent waste bucket instead of just the top.

[@johanponken]

It really is the one with the biggest visual difference between empty and full.

[@Bhuvan_MS]

True

[@Aeduo]

I like the 98 and XP icons. Very colorful.

[@sudhanvagr]

Insightful, Thanks

[@ChrissonatorOFL]

I've always enjoyed the newer icons as each version of Windows came out, I remember installing Windows 98 for the first time after Windows 95 and seeing the new icons. :D

[@pierrekilgoretrout3143]

Thank you, I did not know the max size was for files and not whole bin, I always put it to very very big and that I will change. Once more time thank you!

[@anreoil]

Now it's even better to know that was the misinformation. Life is good, isn't it?

[@TheLadysAtelier]

God the XP bin is so nostalgic to me, instant brain waves as soon as I saw it

[@PlanetEleethal]

The old 98 recycle bin icon is still in the library for compatibility with older software that utilized those icon libs.

[@NonstickMilk]

I wish there was a way to preview something before removing it from the Recycle Bin. I use a Windows computer at work from time to time. Mostly to input my time or look up things. I also use it to reconcile my credit card once a month. Occasionally I need a receipt that got deleted and they all have similar names. It would be great if I could preview something when digging through the trash so that I don't have to recover everything with a similar name until I find what I am looking for.

[@asan1050]

Thank you very much!

[@DrHarryT]

Cista/7 is also used in 8 and the one I prefer. It's still the one I have since I am still running 8.1 WMC on a 9900k with Z390 chipset.

[@ReligiousReasoning]

The bin should have a limit (virtual) that decides the icon. If it's completely empty, if it has just a few files, if it's ¼ full, if it's ½ full, if it's ⅔ full, if it's ¾ full, if it's full, if it's overfilled so like running over

[@johanponken]

▲ THIS! ▲

[@teIugu]

Nuvvu super mama 😊

[@Wingedshadowwolf]

I was downloading Sims 4 cc a while ago and instead of the item I was trying to download, something else started downloading. I don't know if I miss-clicked an ad or what. I stopped the download at the browser and deleted the file, then I went to the recycle bin to get rid of it, my recycle bin got corrupted! I ended up having to delete the whole recycle bin and bring it back. Thankfully, someone had posted instructions on KZbin.

[@whophd]

If that “max size” worked as if people rightly expected it to, it would be amazing.

[@anreoil]

It does.

[@_SJ]

Definitely an excellent thing to see

[@ddylan4cats]

□ ?

[@LiviuDragon]

Hy Thio joe i want to delete that recycle bin folder but reapers in windows xp when deleting it not reapear

[@afb2893]

The windows vista/7 icon was and still isy favorite

[@rsearchtim]

I like the windows 7 icons. I wonder if certain icons are more taxing on video cards :P.

[@johanponken]

Turning off "Windows Aero" styling was a way to save cycles.

[@matthewjones5951]

I have a cool subject for a video that i haven't seen on your channel yet. Windows DaRT from the MDOP set of tools. It's sort of like a Microsoft sanctioned version of Hiren's bootcd.

[@bassanup]

When was it first introduced? 3.1 ? I've been using it from Win '95 and remember that icon. I expected that to be included in your icon list.

[@Khual]

Didn’t know I could add a recycle bin to my flash drive👍now I will be adding it😂

[@foreverswiftie]

I love Win 7 recycle bin. Partly due to nostalgia (I had win 7 for so long, its practically my first OS I used) and partly due to the design

[@limitlesswave]

You're The Man

[@whatzause]

Didn't know most of that. Interesting.

[@Chris558576]

My favourite is the win 7 bin. Another thing i see is that sometimes when i delete files made by Acronis 17 boot disk they disappear immediately. This is something to do with the file properties itself i think but they always work properly.

[@dennisestenson7820]

8:30 is seems like its appearance in the registry describing a bit bucket, explains its purpose. Each file in the recycle bin seems to be turned into a bitbucket which has a maximum size as specified. 🤷

[@kunka592]

I like the Windows 2000 icon and I barely even used that OS, but it always looked nice.

[@oluwahefner4194]

Watched a vid and felt I should support and subbed because I thought you were a small KZbinr... Then I looked more closely lmao. That's a good thing tho, small KZbinr energy is more authentic

[@5idi]

The windowd 98 icon 😍 Can I change to it? Changing today.

[@j7ndominica051]

I've not used the recycle bin in many years. It's a tool for new users who can't decide what they want to delete. I wonder if the original thought was to promote recycling of trash with this concept. Recycling is not a good analogy for how data on a disk is managed. I like sharp Windows 98 icons. Previously Windows did have a setting for how many percent of the space to allocate for the bin. There used to be a part of Norton Utilities called Norton Protected Recycle Bin. It was another layer that acted like the r/bin but the disk space occupied by the files in it was added to the free space. This bin would delete its contents automatically. If the computer crashed, the free disk space was always incorrect after a reboot.

[@kjworrell2952]

The red X on the Recycle Bin icon typically indicates a synchronization issue with OneDrive or another cloud service

[@kayu5h]

I wanna have a video where you show your desktop setup with the apps that elevate your windows experience.

[@Darkhalo314]

I remember my recycling bin getting so full a few years ago that Windows told me it was impossible to delete more files

[@johnmclaughlin9674]

Awesome channel awesome content

[@RoboGameOfficial]

You can also hold shift whilst holding delete in file explorer to discard a file permanently without moving it to the recycle bin

[@JamesTRyder]

Hi ThioJoe! I watch you all the time - great vids! I suffer with 'Catastrophic Peripheeral' which means in my right eye I can only see directly ahead. In addition I can't tell depth, can't see colors very well, cannot see down at all etc. This only happened to me some 10 years ago. Prior to that I was a US Marine, a NYC Police Officer (NYPD) etc. But I waas also an IT professional AND LOVED MY JOB. You did something that intrigued me in this vid. You had a bright desktop, but a dark window (files explorer) and dragging your mouse ovveer thdem was highlighted as you moved your moue. HOW DO YOU DO that? Please!

[@ChaosGamesYT]

Amazing Video!!!!!!!!!!

[@YouGotPropofol]

Never understood why in the recycle bin you can't see a preview of a file in the preview pane. It's not actually deleted its just in another folder as you described so why no be able to show a preview in the explorer preview pane?

[@thisoldminer]

I like the VISTA one too....... where can I get it plz?

[@johanponken]

From some related file of the Vista OS (.exe or .dll)

[@thisoldminer]

@@johanponken thx

[@_SJ]

New vid 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@RajsankarD]

Can someone help me? Whenever I shred my recycle bin using mcafee, they say one file cannot be deleted and when I check the recycle bin there is nothing. Also if I scan my recycle bin, even if it does not have a thing still it says 4 files are scanned. Is it any malware or anything like that?😊

[@M-TECH3078]

Cool video!

[@aamiddel8646]

Interesting. Is there a function to restore a file from the recycle bin to another location?

[@nerilancioni187]

Each drive have it's own recycle bin! IE: you delete a file from an external drive in your PC and you plug the same drive to another PC, then the second PC has that file in it's recycle bin and it dissapears in the first one

[@mjc0961]

I'd say 10 and 7 are my favorite bins too

[@LarcR]

I've never liked any of the Windows icons for the Recycle Bin, so use a couple of wooden bucket icons instead (one with trash and one without). The sound when it empties is like heavy trash being dumped out of the bucket onto the ground.

[@KojiKazama]

I like Win7 icon the most but something about XP looks really nice.

[@johanponken]

I agree. XP is the next most "glassy".

[@AdamTwardoch]

One fun fact is also: in the English version of Windows 11, it's no longer called "Recycle Bin". It's just "Bin".

[@ASK3W-MC]

My favorite icon was of windows 7. It just looks so cool

[@Gogohobbytv]

Something that can be added here is the fix for the recycle bin icon not refreshing (after playing with different themes for Windows). The fix is to add ,0 after the ico extension for the empty and the full values in the file path here HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\DefaultIcon. There is an article named "Fix Recycle Bin not Refreshing in Windows" on tenforums.

[@Andi131Cee]

The link to the Recycle Bin on my desktop links to the external disk on D drive?

[@RockyAllenLane]

How do you get the Vista icons for Windows 10? Thanks.

[@thelbtlover]

The dumbest thing they did in Windows Vista was if you right clicked on the recycle bin there was a delete option however if you clicked the delete option it just removed the icon entirely. Windows Vista was such a dumpster fire back then but compared to Windows 8, 10 and 11 it was an excellent operating system.

[@thecooldudes69420]

Wow, even I didn't know about that.

[@NoEgg4u]

My somewhat not-current version of VeraCrypt has problems with the recycle bin. It gets hung for a while, and then complains that the recycle bin is corrupt. Perhaps a current version of VeraCrypt has fixed that problem? The above is only for encrypted, VeraCrypt volumes.

[@jimv1983]

The Windows Vista/7 icon is my favorite.