2006-09-06 03:49:02 · 25 answers · asked by Im.not.a.hero 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
I agree, silly isn't it.
2006-09-06 03:50:23 · answer #1 · answered by Cj 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
An icon on the Windows desktop that represents a directory where deleted files are temporarily stored. This enables you to retrieve files that you may have accidentally deleted. That is the deleated files are available for recycling. so it is called recycle bin.
From time to time, you'll want to purge the recycle bin to free up space on your hard disk. You can also configure Windows so that it doesn't use the recycle bin at all, but then you won't be able to retrieve accidentally deleted files.
2006-09-06 11:02:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As you may or may not know, Apple Computer was the first mainstream computer company with an operating system which used a Graphical User Interface. Apple had and still has a Trash Can for deleting files. When Microsoft copied Apple's operating system, they had to find a way to differentiate themselves. They came up with the "Recycle Bin." Likewise the "recycle" component gave it a more environmentally friendly overtone and you can take stuff out of the recycle bin if you "accidentally" put it there. It may not be quite as "cool" psychologically to take stuff back out of a trash can.
2006-09-06 10:58:23 · answer #3 · answered by Paul Z 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because Bill Gates wanted to be creative and "in tune" with something well viewed like recycling. It should be called "The trash can". I can offer another explanation. It's called a recycling bin because the hard disk space you take up with a file is recovered once it is deleted, so in a way the hard disk space is recycled.
2006-09-06 10:54:07 · answer #4 · answered by Ale 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Recycle bin basically removes the directory path of your file to the "Recycle bin" path. It doesn't delete the file.
To restore the file from recycle bin, it basically revert back the path of the file to its original state.
Only if you empty the recycle bin or by deleting using Ctrl+Del, you physically remove the binary data from your hard-drive and partition table.
Recycle bin helps you not to do all this "damage" i've mentioned above.
2006-09-06 12:24:29 · answer #5 · answered by The Elite Gentleman 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mac had the "Trash" can to delete files. Windows wanted to one-up them, so they called it the Recycle Bin.
2006-09-06 10:51:34 · answer #6 · answered by hslayer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They used to call it "trash" but then they thought it would be more ecologically aware to use the term "recycle bin" instead. It just gives Microsoft a better image, and the word "trash" on the desktop is not a pleasant "design element" on an operating system that costs 200 million dollars to develop.
2006-09-06 10:53:04 · answer #7 · answered by martin h 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats not true, my files get turned into plastic cups that come out of the back of the PC, isn't everyones like that ?
Its talking about "Recycling" of memory on the disk. Not a correct definition but not the worst misake Microsoft have made
2006-09-06 10:57:05 · answer #8 · answered by Michael H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I presume it is the disk space that is being recycled. The data contained in a file may be destroyed, but the disk space is recycled so that you can use it again.
Either that, or it's just Microsoft trying to appear environmentally friendly :)
2006-09-06 10:51:23 · answer #9 · answered by Matt P 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Recycle means something you can reproduce or do something with. It is called recycle cos you can retrieve the deleted information when you need it again.
2006-09-06 10:56:25 · answer #10 · answered by Queeny 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unlike a trash can, you can pull something out of it and restore it. Might not be the perfect name but the 'throw away and possibly reuse it bin' would have been too long of a name.
Hey, isn't 'reuse' part of recycling? hmmm, maybe so.
2006-09-06 10:53:57 · answer #11 · answered by words_smith_4u 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋