Recovering files from an emptied Windows recycle bin is a bit more difficult than most file recovery. The reason for this is that when you place files into the Windows recycle bin, they are changed. These files no longer exist as part of the readily accessible file system of your computer’s hard drive. The best way to describe this is to consider them has been half deleted. As long as the files remain in the recycle bin, you can easily open the bin and restore the files to your desktop or their original location. For once you have emptied your Windows recycle bin the files are not only deleted from your computer hard drive they are deleted in a way which makes them extremely hard to recognize. Files placed into the Windows recycle bin are actually in a specially created folder labeled recycler. The files themselves are relabeled with coded names. Therefore if you place in your Windows recycle bin a file named my stuff, when you empty the Windows recycle bin it is as if the my stuff file never existed. With this situation how do we then rescued files once the Windows recycle bin has been emptied. Recycle bin recovery is fairly simple. You must of course use a powerful file recovery tool that will scan through your entire hard drive and find the folders labeled recycler. Once found, you must recover each of these and open them one by one to examine the contents. As you might very well have had hundreds of files recently deleted from the Windows recycle bin it will be helpful if you can recall the approximate date the files were last modified.