The dialog box displays all of the disks that have an associated Recycle Bin (each hard drive can have its own Recycle Bin). Windows displays the Recycle Bin Properties dialog box. In either case, you resize the Recycle Bin by right-clicking the Recycle Bin icon on your desktop and selecting Properties from the resulting Context menu. Or, if you find yourself doing a lot of “undeletes,” you may want to increase the size of the Recycle Bin so that it will hold more deleted files. If you think this is too much “wasted” space, you can resize the Recycle Bin to make it smaller. This isn't bad until you consider that a 1TB drive will have a Recycle Bin that uses 50 GB of disk space. If you find yourself getting low on disk space, you can resize the Recycle Bin so that it takes up less space (but therefore holds fewer deleted files).īy default, the Recycle Bin is set to about 5% of the size of your disk. The Recycle Bin does take up disk space, and as you delete many files over time, this special folder can consume a good portion of your disk.
This is done so that if you accidentally delete a file you didn't intend to, you can easily restore it by opening the Recycle Bin, selecting the file you want to “undelete,” and clicking Restore. The Recycle Bin is a special system folder that holds the files that you delete.
