In this post, I tried to enumerate files within recycle bin using a small Win32 program. As we know that recycle bin is a special folder on Windows File System. The location of this directory is not in the registry; it is marked with hidden and system attributes to prevent the user from moving or deleting it. The steps to list out the contents of Recycle bin are as below: 1. It's a special folder denoted by CSIDL_BITBUCKET, which we need to pass to the function SHGetFolderLocation() method. 2. Source code snippet, I've avoided checks as much as possible to make the code simple and clean: int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[]) { LPITEMIDLIST pidlWinRecycleFiles = NULL; LPITEMIDLIST pidlItems = NULL; IShellFolder *psfWinRecycleFiles = NULL; IShellFolder *psfDeskTop = NULL; LPENUMIDLIST ppenum = NULL; STRRET strDispName; TCHAR pszParseName[MAX_PATH]; ULONG celtFetched; HRESULT hr; hr