No one likes to take out the trash -- whether it's the bin under your kitchen sink or the virtual trash on your PC's desktop. Even so, the Recycle Bin is a useful storage location on your PC. Not only ...

Illustration by Ross MacDonald Has your Recycle Bin disappeared? Before I tell you how to solve the problem, you need to answer one more question: Was the Recycle Bin ever actually there? I’ve seen a ...

When you delete a file in Windows it is usually not permanently deleted. Instead, Windows moves the file to a special location called the Recycle Bin. First implemented in Windows 95, the Recycle Bin ...

PCs have a reputation for being staid and sort of business-like, right? Nah, that’s just an image pushed by a Apple’s famous ad campaign. The truth is, your PC is a blank slate for as much creativity ...

There is no reason why the Recycle Bin folder would get corrupt, but the system files tend to get corrupt all the time (hence we have the DISM and SFC tools). We will ...

Much has been made of policies around network access and data storage security in the fight against data breaches. But the lowly PC Recycle Bin lurks as one of the biggest sources of breachiness out ...

Microsoft says it found a potentially important document in its case against its former executive Kai-Fu Lee and Google in the "recycle bin" of one of Lee?s computers. According to papers filed with a ...