Deleting temporary Internet files
As you visit Web sites, your browser stores temporary Internet files on your hard drive in a memory cache and a disk cache. Files in the memory cache are removed when you turn off your server. Files are saved in the disk cache until the space designated for the cache is full. See your browser’s Help files for instructions on emptying the disk cache.
You can save space on the hard drive by decreasing the size of the Internet file disk cache. See your browser’s Help files for instructions.
Emptying the Recycle Bin
When you delete a file from your hard drive in Windows, it is not immediately removed from the hard drive. Instead, the file is moved into the Recycle Bin. Because files are stored in the Recycle Bin and not deleted from the hard drive immediately, you can retrieve a file that you accidentally delete from the hard drive.
To delete all the files from on the desktop, then click
the Recycle Bin,
You can save space on the hard drive by decreasing the size of the Recycle Bin.
To decrease the size of the Recycle Bin:
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2At the Global tab, select either Configure drives independently or Use one setting for all drives.
3If you are configuring drives independently, click the tab for the drive you want to configure.
4Move the slider to set the size of the Recycle Bin. A good initial setting is 5%.
5Click OK.
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