How to Change Maximum Storage Size for Recycle Bin in Windows 10
The Recycle Bin provides a safety net when deleting files or folders. When you delete any of these items from your hard disk, Windows places it in the Recycle Bin and the Recycle Bin icon changes from empty to full.
If you have multiple hard drives, partitions, or an external hard drive connected to your PC, each location will have its own $Recycle.Bin and Recycle Bin settings. Removable drives, such as USB flash drives and memory cards, will not have a Recycle Bin. Files deleted from removable drives are permanently deleted.
The Recycle Bin will store deleted files until the maximum storage size for that Recycle Bin location has been reached. When this happens the Recycle Bin will automatically permanently delete (empty) older files in the Recycle Bin location to make room for the newer deleted files.
If you like keeping all your deleted files in the Recycle Bin as a safety net, you can increase the maximum storage size for the Recycle Bin.
This tutorial will show you how to change the maximum storage size for Recycle Bin for only your account in Windows 10.
Here's How:
1 Right click or press and hold on the Recycle Bin, and click/tap on Properties. (see screenshot below)
2 Select the Recycle Bin location for the drive (ex: C ) at the top you want to change the maximum storage size for. (see screenshot below)
3 Select (dot) Custom size, set the maximum size in MB (1024 MB = 1 GB) for storage you want, and click/tap on Apply. (see screenshot below)
The default maximum storage size of a Recycle Bin location is about 5% of its space available.
4 Repeat step 2 above if you have another Recycle Bin location you want to change the maximum storage size for.
5 When finished, click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below step 2)
That's it,
Shawn Brink
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Change Maximum Storage Size for Recycle Bin in Windows 10
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New #1
Any way to set it to minimum via registry .bat/.reg?
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New #2
It's not practical to set this via registry since each volume is assigned a unique GUID with no easy way of knowing which drive they are for. MaxCapacity is the DWORD for this setting.
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New #3
You could usemountvolto get the GUID. For example to set C to 5000MBCode:$Size=5000 # Size in MB $Volume=mountvol C:\ /L $Guid=[regex]::Matches($Volume,'{([-0-9A-F].*?)}') $RegKey="HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\BitBucket\Volume\"+$Guid.value New-ItemProperty -Path $RegKey -Name MaxCapacity -Value $Size -PropertyType "dword" -Force
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New #5
I can't change it as it is grayed on my computer since yesterday. How do I fix this? I have tried so many things that I might have to resort to reintalling Windows 10
This sucks
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New #7
Started a thread here and nothing has worked thus far sadly: Win10 Recycle Bin no longer lets me recycle stuff to it - Windows 10 ForumsHello @Angbo0m,
Please go ahead and post a screenshot showing this to see if anything may stand out.
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New #8
I'm the OP.
Thanks one and all. Worked like a charm.
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Change Maximum Storage Size for Recycle Bin in Windows 10
How to Change Maximum Storage Size for Recycle Bin in Windows 10Published by Shawn BrinkCategory: General Tips
19 Aug 2021
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