# Windows Recycle Bin

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-recycle-bin/118766>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 13, 2002, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-recycle-bin/118766 "2002-07-13T10:41:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2002, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-recycle-bin/118766/21 "2002-07-14T15:54:59Z")

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**bouv,** a friend of mine made the same suggestion. Like you, he didn’t know the sequence for Windows2000 and we couldn’t get it figured out. It seems logical that some sort of “hidden files” gizmo was tricking us, but why would it apparently now have gone away? That is a rhetorical question, by the way. Anyway, I guess it will remain one of lifes enigmas unless someone pops up with a definitive answer.

Thanks to all, once again.

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