Author: Brady Gavin / Source: How-To Geek
Any time you delete something in Windows, it goes to the Recycle Bin. It sits there until the Recycle Bin reaches it’s preconfigured maximum size (or until you empty the bin), at which point Windows deletes the oldest files in the bin to make room for new ones.
This gives you a chance to restore deleted files before they’re permanently gone.Most people just leave the Recycle Bin alone, never adjusting its default settings and letting it do its job. Today, though, we’re going to talk about those settings you can adjust.
Change the Maximum Size the Recycle Bin Can Reach
The Recycle Bin has a maximum amount of storage it can reach before Windows deletes old files to make room for new ones. The default storage size is a little tough to nail down. On a personal computer used by one person that’s not part of a managed network, the Recycle Bin takes up just over 5% of the total size of a volume. So, for example, on a normal 1 TB drive (which has about 930 GB of usable space), you can expect the Recycle Bin’s default size to be around 46 GB.
And yes, each volume has its own Recycle Bin. It’s stored as a hidden system folder named “$RECYCLE.BIN” at the root of each volume. In the image below, you can see it on the drive I use to hold my virtual machines.
Even though each drive has its own Recycle Bin folder, the contents of all those folders are combined in the normal Recycle Bin view so that you see all your deleted files, no matter where they come from.
Note: If you are in a managed environment that assigns disk quotas to users, your Recycle Bin will hold about 5% of your allowed quota instead of the entire volume.
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