The big thing Storage Sense can do is automatically clean up your hard drive the way that Disk Cleanup and tools like Ccleaner do. In one of the early updates to Windows 10, Microsoft added a feature named Storage Sense that’s aimed at helping you free up space on your drive. Set Recycle Bin to Delete Files Automatically After a Set Time When you have this option enabled, it might be wise to also enable the confirmation box by ticking the “Display Delete Confirmation Dialog.” This option forces Windows to prompt you any time you delete something, to make sure you really want to delete it. Remove files immediately when deleted.” option. To make this happen, in the Recycle Bin Properties window, select the “Don’t move files to the Recycle Bin. Maybe you need to delete a bunch of things at once that you know you won’t need again and you don’t want to affect what’s already in the Bin. We don’t recommend it for general use, but it can be handy in some situations. If you prefer to have things deleted immediately rather than sitting in the Recycle Bin, you can make that happen. Stop Using the Recycle Bin and Have Items Deleted Immediately Select the volume for which you want to change the size and then type a specific size in MB in the “Custom Size” field. If you have only one volume (your system or C: drive), that’s all you’ll see. In the properties window, you’ll see each volume listed. Open up the Recycle Bin properties window by right-clicking the Recycle Bin icon on your desktop and then clicking the “Properties” command. If you have a 2 TB hard drive that holds files you rarely delete, there’s not much point in the Recycle Bin taking up 100 GB of space. There are times, however, when you might want to adjust it. Most of the time, that default will be fine.

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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