# Recycle Bin Question **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 22, 2011, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recycle-bin-question/572218 "2011-02-22T14:21:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NadaHappyCamper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/278dde/32.png) [@NadaHappyCamper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NadaHappyCamper)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2011, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recycle-bin-question/572218/1 "2011-02-22T14:21:27Z")
Good Day Purveyors of Knowledge, My problem probably has a simple solution. I keep sending files to the recycle bin, and I then empty said bin. Prblem minor as it is they then reappear on my desktop a few hours later, also I put some files into a storage folder and the very same thing happens. What am I doing incorrectly? ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2011, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recycle-bin-question/572218/2 "2011-02-22T14:51:11Z")
Stop running System Restore at noon! 😛 Honestly I don’t know what else could cause that aside from some kind of obsessive compulsive virus. ---
**Author:** ![Hairy\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecc23a/32.png) [@Hairy\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hairy_Bob)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2011, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recycle-bin-question/572218/3 "2011-02-22T20:44:16Z")
How often do you delete something and then realise you needed it? It’s possible to do away with the recycle bin altogether, although I don’t remember the procedure for doing it, and I stay away from windows as much as possible nowadays, so can’t check. Google is your friend, though, and if you can’t find it, you can always press shift+delete to bypass the recycle bin. Not a solution as such, but it’s a workaround.