Windows 3.1

[macuser]

in windows 3.1 when you delete a file does it go somewhere prior to being actually deleted (like a recycle bin type of scenario)?

[Yogi]

Nope. It's toast once you delete it (as far as I know anyway). I believe the Recycle Bin was brought in with Win 95.

[dbusguy]

Nope. It's toast once you delete it (as far as I know anyway). I believe the Recycle Bin was brought in with Win 95.


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[Frogy]

If I recall correctly, 3.1 renames the file by changing the first letter of the name to ?. You can reactivate the file by changing it back to the correct letter. Mind you once a defrag is done that option is toast.

[A.J..]

Found this, hope it helps -

If you've accidentally deleted something, stop what you're doing and immediately run the Windows Undelete program. Don't do anything else.
If you do something else at this point -- saving the file you are worried about, for example -- you could wipe out the information that Windows needs to recover your deleted files.
The Windows Undelete program is called MWUNDEL.EXE. It's probably located in the DOS directory on the C: drive. If you know how to do a File Search in Windows, type in "MWUNDEL.EXE" and Windows will list the program in a window; double-click on it and the Undelete program will run. If you are comfortable with File Manager, navigate into the C:\DOS directory and run it from there. When Windows Undelete starts up, it may try to show you a list of deleted files in the DOS directory. Ignore such a list and click on the Directory button to change to the directory that held the files you accidentally deleted.
Tip: If you deleted an entire directory, use the Directory button to enter the parent directory of the one you deleted.
Once you've located the deleted directory or the deleted files within Windows Undelete, click on the Undelete button. In some cases, Windows may ask you to type in the first character of the name of the item you want to recover. (It does this when it's lost track of the beginning of the name.) If you are recovering a directory full of files, you'll need to use Undelete to recover the directory first, then use it again to recover each file separately.