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If what you say is correct, then there'd be no point in having a recycle bin at all. Since most programs put piles of garbage on your machine, I often try deleting files that seem to be using up disk space for no useful purpose. If the program that put them up then refuses to work, I restore them. That is quite separate from backing up, which is obviously important. Incidentally Norton's NProtect, for all its other faults, does provide timed removal of deleted files.

This may be something of a challenge to program, but I for one would find it an extremely useful addition to an already very useful prog: ->Add an advanced option to remove only items deleted more than xx hours ago from the recycle bin. Comment: Windows only deletes objects from the recycle bin when it is full. That leads to enormous numbers of files in the recycle bin and a lot of wasted disk space. Most cleaners offer the option of emptying the bin, but that may remove recently accidentally deleted files. On the other hand 99% of accidental deletions that need to be undone are noticed within a couple of hours and 99.99% within 1 week (168 hours). So if Ccleeaner could remove only older items, the recycle bin could be kept small and useful. NB It is important to use the deletion time (stored in the INFO2 file) and not the file date.