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What is the Recycle Bin for?
Customize Your Recycle Bin
Send to the Recycle Bin
Recycle Size
What is the Recycle Bin for?
The Recycle bin holds files that you delete, in case you need to
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Customize Your Recycle Bin
Here's a few things you can do to customize your Recycle Bin.
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Send to the Recycle Bin
To quickly send your files to the Recycle bin, you can create
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Recycle Size
Your Recycle Bin takes up 10-percent of your hard drive by
retrieve them at some point. It will only hold a set amount of
amoun datat, so if you never empty it, you will not end up with a
hard drive full of old, deleted files. Note; if you need to or want to
restore a deleted file, simply double-click the recycle bin, then
right-click the file you wish to restore. A little menu will come up
and give you an option to restore. The file will restore itself to its
original destination. To empty the recycle bin, right-click it, select
"Empty Recycle Bin" from the menu. You can also empty it from
inside. To do so this way, once in the recycle bin, click on "File"
and the first option is "Empty Recycle Bin". Highlight and your
files are blasted back out into cyberspace - for good.
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No Confirmations:
You know how every time you delete something, Windows asks
if you really want to delete it? If you are getting frustrated with
that message and perhaps even find yourself yelling "Yes!" at it,
it may be time to rid yourself of the annoyance. Keep in mind,
however, this feature can be a lifesaver at times. One can easily
click delete on the wrong file be accident. With this feature enabled,
be sure you are deleting exactly what you wish to delete. Okay,
finally - here is how to rid youself of the prompt:
Right-click the Recycle bin, Properties and deselect the checkbox
for "Display delete confirmation dialog box".
That's it!
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a shortcut to it in your "Send" menu. To do so, open Windows
Explorer and locate the "Send to" folder on your system. It is
usually c:\windows\sendto, where c:\windows is the drive folder
where Windows is installed.. Drag the Recycle Bin icon on the
desktop to the Send To folder. Choose Yes when prompted to create
a shortcut. Then, you send a file to the Recycle Bin by right-clicking
the file, point to "Send To" and select Shortcut To Recycle Bin.
Please note that this will not work for deleting files from floppy disks
or other files that are not on your hard drive. Those would get deleted,
not sent to the Recycle Bin.
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default. If you have a ten gig hard drive, Windows is setting
aside 1 gig for the Recycle Bin - or, your virtual garbage. You
can free up some of your hard drive space by right-clicking your
Recycle Bin, going into properties, and moving the little slider
to the left. Usually, 300 to 500 meg is more than sufficient for
recycling. If you look around on the resulting menu with the
slider, you will see you can set the computer to bypass the
recycle bin to permanently delete files. This is not recommended
as tempting as it may be to activate this feature. If you have used
a computer for a while now, you have most likely had to restore a
file or two that was accidentally deleted for whatever reason. If you
have a file and are certain you want it permanently deleted, you can
highlight it and press SHIFT and DELETE. This procedure will remove
that particular file without sending it to the Recycle Bin first.
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