Take Control Of Your Recycle Bin

Your Recycle Bin can take up to 10 percent of your hard
drive, it can have files so old that they were there
when you purchased your computer. This is a lot of space
for stuff you have already asked to be deleted. 

Open the Recycle Bin,

Click the Tab Named "Date Deleted": this will show you
how long ago a file was deleted, oldest on the top.

Click the Tab Named "Size": this will show you the size
of the file: smallest first.

Click the Tab Named "Name": this will show you the name
alphabetically.

Click the Tab Named "Type" (My Personal Favorite) this
will show you the type in alphabetical order

Any Shortcuts can be deleted without any worry of having
to make them again.  0-byte *.txt files or any other
file you know it is not needed that is 0-byte can be
deleted. As for other files, use discretion.

From the Recycle Bin on your desktop (or in C:/):
right click it.
Click "Properties": the sliding bar with a percent under
it controls how much of your drive space it can occupy.

This simple equation will give you how much space in
megabytes its using:

 HD Size / 100 x Percent = Amount
ex. 1000 / 100 x   11    = 110 Megabytes

You can have the Recycle Bin Delete files as soon as
they are put in and (or) Delete files without being
asked if you want to.

As you can see the recycle bin can be configured from in
side as well as from its properties menu.

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