The Task Manager has been around for a long time.
The app gives you access to many functions that can help with your efforts to monitor, control and optimise your operating system. It can also be used to diagnose system problems by showing abnormal use of resources. High usage of CPU, Memory, network or disk usage can indicate problems whose cause needs to be found and reduced. If you are tweaking your system settings you will want to see how effective they are by reviewing the relevant categories.
The Task Manager has been around for a long time.
The app gives you access to many functions that can help with your efforts to monitor, control and optimise your operating system. It can also be used to diagnose system problems by showing abnormal use of resources. High usage of CPU, Memory, network or disk usage can indicate problems whose cause needs to be found and reduced. If you are tweaking your system settings you will want to see how effective they are by reviewing the relevant categories.
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Windows Tools - Recycle Bin
The recycle bin has been with windows since Windows 95. Its intention is to provide a storage cache for files/folders you have deleted. You can then decide to restore or permanently delete. There are also settings for deleting files without storing and allocating the amount of disk space for the recycle bin
Accessing the Recycle Bin
Windows 10 does not make access to the recycle bin easy and it is hidden by default. It can be made visible on the desktop or file manager - from the file manager it can be Pinned to the Start Menu to be displayed on the start menu display if you want.
Activate on Desktop
Settings > Personalization > Themes > Desktop Icon Settings or
Right Click on the desktop and select Personalize form the context menu
Both these options take you to the Personalization Setting page and from here to the Desktop Icon option
Show in the filemanager
Go to the File Manager and right click on any empty space in the navigation pane on the left. This can be a bit fiddly but you'll know when your there as the pop up below will show. Note: This action also enables the Control Panel Tile
Recycle Bin Options
Once you access the recycle bin the file manger ribbon changes to give access to various options. A lot of these options are also available by right clicking and bringing up the context menu options
Empty Recycle Bin
This option does exactly what it states. All files are deleted and in general are not recoverable. This frees up disk space.There are ways to try and recover such file using third party apps though this is not always successful. Best to consider them gone forever
Recycle Bin Properties
This option give you access to settings
Custom Size
Refers to the size of the recycle bin. The calculation is based on the quota for users.
For a single user set up the quota Is not considered and the whole disk space is used in the calculation. Thus for a single user the calculation is 10% of the first 40Gb plus 5% of the disk space.
If the default allocation does not meet the user requirements a manual value can be entered.
