Windows has some folders that are marked as shell, or special. "Recycle bin" is one of them, "My Computer" also, etc. This property will return complete path to any of such folders, depending on value below. Please note that these folders don't necessarily need to be placed on the same place on every computer. Depending on installation, the drive Windows is located on, or user changes, these folders can be stored anywhere on disk. Because of this it's is advised to use this property to retrieve path to such folders, just to be sure that you are referring to same folder, no matter where your program will be used. Use the ShellFolder property to convert a path to an EnShellFolder object.