By default,Windows XP reserves 10 percent of each hard drive to store deleted files in the recycling bin. This is a bit excessive,unless you habitually delete files a gigabyte in size or more.There is a way to reduce the amount of hard disk space that is reserved for the recycling bins on each drive.To do that follow the steps below:
1.Right click on the RECYCLE BIN and select "PROPERTIES".
2.Choose the "Global" tab.
(i)To reserve equal recycle bin space for all the drives:
Under that tab there is a slider that shows the percentage of space of each drive that is reserved by the recycling bin.Now reduce this to a more appropriate amount like 2-3% or more depending on the size of your drives.The more the number of drives you have the smaller the size you should use.
(ii)To reserve varying recycle bin space for the drives:
If you wish to configure each drive independently,
(1)check the "CONFIGURE DRIVES INDEPENDENTLY" button and then switch to the different drive's tab like (c:),(D:),etc and adjust the slider to the desired amount in each of the hard disk's tabs.
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