Since Recycle Bin is a fundamental tool of Windows 10 and all other versions of Windows, we decided to make an in-depth analysis of this tool.

What is the Recycle Bin?

As previously mentioned, Recycle Bin isn’t a new feature of Windows 10, and it works the same as it did in previous versions of Windows. When you delete a certain file, the file itself isn’t actually deleted from your hard drive, instead, it’s moved to your Recycle Bin, and even if you can’t use it while it’s located in Recycle Bin, you can easily restore it to the original location at any time. Since moving the files to Recycle Bin doesn’t actually delete them, they will still occupy the same space on your hard drive. If you want to permanently delete a file or folder from your PC, you can do that by following our guides.

How can I use the Recycle Bin in Windows 10?

1. Permanently delete files from the Recycle bin

You can delete individual files from Recycle Bin in order to permanently remove them. To do that, follow these steps: If you wish to delete all files and folders permanently from Recycle Bin you can do the following:

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2. Configure Recycle Bin to permanently delete files from the Computer

  1. Right click on Recycle Bin and select Properties.

  2. Select your hard drive partition.

  3. Choose Don’t move files to the Recycle Bin. Remove files immediately when deleted. Bear in mind that you can choose files from one partition to be permanently deleted, while files from a different partition can be set to move to Recycle Bin when you choose the Delete option. SPONSORED

  4. By default, Windows 10 doesn’t give you a confirmation message when you choose to delete a certain file or folder, so if you enable option to permanently delete files without moving them to Recycle Bin, you might accidentally remove important files. To prevent this from happening check the Display delete confirmation dialog option.

  5. Click Apply and OK to save changes.

If you don’t wish to store deleted files in Recycle Bin, you can configure it to permanently remove files from your PC when they are deleted, without moving them to the Recycle Bin. You can choose whether you still want a confirmation pop-up upon deleting a file or not. Bear in mind that this option will permanently delete your files, and by default, this option doesn’t use a confirmation dialog, so be extremely careful if you’re going to use it.

3. Permanently delete files from your computer after you configure Recycle Bin

If you use this method, your files won’t be available in Recycle Bin so you won’t be able to restore them, so keep that in mind.

4. How to increase Recycle Bin’s maximum size for files

Files in Recycle Bin aren’t deleted by default from your computer and they are still taking certain amount of space. If you want to increase the amount of space that Recycle Bin uses for each hard drive partition, you can do that by following these steps:

5. How to recover permanently deleted files from Recycle Bin

Now when you know how to permanently delete files from Recycle Bin, let’s see how you can restore them. In order to restore a certain file to its original location, you need to do the following: Since every file moved to the Recycle Bin is still taking space on your hard drive, it’s always a good idea to clean your Recycle Bin from time to time in order to save some space, and if you want to permanently delete a file from your PC, you can do it by following one of the several methods that we mentioned above.

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Recycle Bin is a key component of every Windows operating system, therefore it’s important that you know how to use it properly, and we hope that our guide thought you a thing or two about Recycle Bin.

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