On Windows 10, the Recycle Bin is a great feature designed to store deleted files, instead of erasing them immediately from the hard drive. If you ever need them back, you can use this feature to ...

Windows 11 offers an automated Recycle Bin cleaning feature to save storage space. Learn how to enable it in System Settings and configure the Recycle Bin behavior for daily, weekly, or monthly ...

In this post, we will show you how to automatically empty in Recycle Bin and Downloads folder using Storage Sense in Windows 11/10. If you use a file on a daily or even weekly basis, keeping that in ...

After cleaning the folder, I restarted the computer and checked the Storage page again. The free space on the drive had ...

This post will explain how to restore or recover the deleted files, folders, and other items from the Recycle Bin to the original locations. Sometimes, we end up deleting important files and folders, ...

Microsoft has added a new Recycle Bin feature to its cloud-based file hosting service, SkyDrive. Although SkyDrive keeps previous versions of user's Office documents automatically, until now, there ...

For all of the talk of cloud backups and sync, there isn't always a safety net when working from the cloud itself -- delete a file online and it might be gone forever. With that in mind, Microsoft ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is unveiling a new recycle bin feature for SkyDrive today.