Recycle Bin will not grow beyond 3.99 GB

[Guest]

Have a 228 GB Hard Drive (C) and I cannot set the Recycle Bin Max Size. It
consistently stays at 3.99 GB regardless of what % I have the Bin set at. I
have "Set drives Independently" selected. 196 GB free on the drive. Any
Thoughts??

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Have a 228 GB Hard Drive (C) and I cannot set the Recycle Bin Max
Size. It consistently stays at 3.99 GB regardless of what % I have
the Bin set at. I have "Set drives Independently" selected. 196
GB free on the drive. Any Thoughts??

How is your hard disk drive formatted? NTFS or FAT32?

 

[Guest]

NTFS

How is your hard disk drive formatted? NTFS or FAT32?

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Do you have any Norton utilities? Has Norton Protected Storage been set up?

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England

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[Guest]

This computer originally came with Nortons Internet Security but I
uninstalled it and loaded McAfee. Do you think the uninstall left something
behind that could be causing this?

 

[Gerry Cornell]

I found the following in a McAfee Quick Clean Manual which is similar
but not the same as you have done. The difference being "Make sure
to tick the "Use one setting for all drives" dot."

Why? Files you delete do not go away, they go to the Recycle Bin.
This is great when you need to recover an accidentally erased file,
but holding all of your deleted files is a burden on your system. By
emptying or reducing the size of your Recycle Bin, you can
improve the performance of your machine. You can manually
empty the Recycle Bin and also change the settings in Windows
so that the size of your Recycle Bin is smaller than the default
(which is pretty big - 10% of the size of your drive!)


A. Manually empty the Recycle Bin

B. Reduce the Maximum Size of your Recycle Bin

Click on your Start button.

Click on My Computer.

Click Folders.

Right-click on Recycle Bin.

Click Empty Recycle Bin.

Click Yes to empty the Bin.

Click on your Start button.

Click on My Computer.

Click Folders.

Right-click on Recycle Bin.

Click Properties.

Make sure to tick the "Use one setting
for all drives" dot.

Change the maximum size of the Recycle Bin to 5% of the drive.

Clean Time? Less than 10 minutes.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the info. Tried it with no success.

I found the following in a McAfee Quick Clean Manual which is similar
but not the same as you have done. The difference being "Make sure
to tick the "Use one setting for all drives" dot."

Why? Files you delete do not go away, they go to the Recycle Bin.
This is great when you need to recover an accidentally erased file,
but holding all of your deleted files is a burden on your system. By
emptying or reducing the size of your Recycle Bin, you can
improve the performance of your machine. You can manually
empty the Recycle Bin and also change the settings in Windows
so that the size of your Recycle Bin is smaller than the default
(which is pretty big - 10% of the size of your drive!)


A. Manually empty the Recycle Bin

B. Reduce the Maximum Size of your Recycle Bin

Click on your Start button.

Click on My Computer.

Click Folders.

Right-click on Recycle Bin.

Click Empty Recycle Bin.

Click Yes to empty the Bin.

Click on your Start button.

Click on My Computer.

Click Folders.

Right-click on Recycle Bin.

Click Properties.

Make sure to tick the "Use one setting
for all drives" dot.

Change the maximum size of the Recycle Bin to 5% of the drive.

Clean Time? Less than 10 minutes.

--

Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~