Colin
06-15-04, 02:27 PM
In the last few years hard drives have gotten bigger and bigger, while Windows still only allocates the first 10% of a HDD for "garbage" temp files. In most cases that's overkill, and unless you're still using a small HDD (20GB or less I guess), it doesn't make much sense to give up so much prime real estate. <BR><BR>You see the problem lies at the beginning where the HDD is fastest... so while we can't move the recycle bin to the end of the HDD, we can make it take up less space. Right click on the Recycle Bin icon and go to properties and from there click the Global tab (or your HDD tab). You should see a slider and by default it's set to 10%, lower that down to about 2-3% (2% of an 80GB drive that's still 1.6 GB!) then click the OK button.<BR><BR>After that's done it's very important to defrag your HDD! Defraging moves everything closer to the beginning and the next in line is the OS. As you can guess, faster access to the OS can dramatically improve your overall system performance! Damn, that is a good tip isn't it?<BR>