Hide-Desktop-Recycle-Bin-2.png' alt='Recycle Bin For Windows Xp' title='Recycle Bin For Windows Xp' />How to Free Up Disk Space on a Windows XP PC 5 Steps. Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei Special. Edit Article. Running low on memory Need to download more movies or PC games but unfortunately you have run out of spaceThis article will teach you how you can increase your hard drive space without deleting your precious files. Search for Files in Windows Recycle Bin. Computers. Operating Systems. Windows XP Vista. Search for Files in Windows Recycle Bin. Among the many hidden files and folders in Windows, three that you might come across are Recycle. Recycler and System Volume information. Here we explain what. CTRLC Copy CTRLX Cut CTRLV Paste CTRLZ Undo DELETE Delete SHIFTDELETE Delete the selected item permanently without placing the item in the Recycle Bin. RecycleBinEx is a powerful recycle bin manager for Windows Operating System. It extends and enhances the Windows recycle bin, and let you use many extra features in it. By Dan Gookin The Recycle Bin isnt normally searched by the Windows Search command. You may want to take a peek in the trash, er, Recycle Bin whenever the regular version of the Search command comes up empty. To best search the Recycle Bin, follow these steps Open the Recycle Bin icon on the desktop. If the icon isnt available on the desktop, choose Recycle Bin from the Address bar of any Windows Explorer window. Choose Details from the Views button menu on the toolbar. Ensure that the list is sorted by filename. An upward pointing triangle appears next to the Name column heading. If not, click the Name column heading until you see the triangle. The upward pointing triangle indicates an ascending, or A to Z, sort. Scroll the list to look for the misplaced, and wrongly deleted, file. You can quickly scroll to a specific point in the list by pressing a letter key on the keyboard. For example, to find the file named Secret Plans, press the S key. After you find the file, click to select it. Take heed of the information in the Original Location column. The information is the pathname to the folder where the file will be restored. Thats where you need to look in Step 9. Restore the file. In Windows Vista, click the toolbar button Restore This Item. In Windows XP, choose the link Restore This Item from the task panel on the left side of the window. Close the Recycle Bin window. Open a Windows Explorer window press WinE and navigate to the folder where the file has been restored. If youre unfamiliar with pathnames, treat them like road maps that tell you where files are located. You can view Video 2. Heres a pathname example C Users. Atlanta Rhythm Section Best Of Rarity. Public. Pictures. Vacation. Disney. This path directs you to the Disney folder Open Drive C and then the Users folder. Open the Public folder and then the subfolders Pictures, 2. Vacation, and, finally, Disney to locate the file you just restored. You cannot search file contents inside the Recycle Bin. Windows compresses deleted files, and theres no way to look inside the file contents unless you first restore the file to its original location.