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Old January 4th 06, 03:51 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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I work with huge data files (about 500 MB), and my system has a 3.2GHz Intel
with 1 GB of RAM. I cannot delete these files after I have finished
archiving them to DVDs. How do I increase the size of the Recycle bin so
that I can delete them?
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Old January 4th 06, 05:00 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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"Mickster" wrote in message
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I work with huge data files (about 500 MB), and my system has a 3.2GHz
Intel
with 1 GB of RAM. I cannot delete these files after I have finished
archiving them to DVDs. How do I increase the size of the Recycle bin so
that I can delete them?


Hit Shift-delete....that will bypass the bin and zap them permanently.

Patrick


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Old January 4th 06, 05:08 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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patrick@@rebnet (Patrick Cleburne) wrote in
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"Mickster" wrote in message
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I work with huge data files (about 500 MB), and my system has a
3.2GHz Intel
with 1 GB of RAM. I cannot delete these files after I have
finished archiving them to DVDs. How do I increase the size of
the Recycle bin so that I can delete them?


Hit Shift-delete....that will bypass the bin and zap them
permanently.


However, if that's not really what you want to do, to answer your
original question, right-click the "Recycle Bin" icon on your
desktop, select "Properties" and change the "Maximum size of Recycle
Bin ...".
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Old January 4th 06, 05:54 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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"Bert Hyman" wrote in message
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patrick@@rebnet (Patrick Cleburne) wrote in
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"Mickster" wrote in message
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I work with huge data files (about 500 MB), and my system has a
3.2GHz Intel
with 1 GB of RAM. I cannot delete these files after I have
finished archiving them to DVDs. How do I increase the size of
the Recycle bin so that I can delete them?


Hit Shift-delete....that will bypass the bin and zap them
permanently.


However, if that's not really what you want to do, to answer your
original question, right-click the "Recycle Bin" icon on your
desktop, select "Properties" and change the "Maximum size of Recycle
Bin ...".


The problem is the OP asked the wrong compound question-- which you
dutifully answered! The objective is to get rid of the file which he
archived to DVD. Putting it in the bin is only an unnecessary intermediate
step. Hitting shift-delete is more efficient and therefore a better
solution.

Suppose he said he needed to get from his home in New York to a meeting in
Chicago ASAP and did you know a cheap gas station where he could fill up on
his way through Atlanta. The correct answer isn't the Quick Trip at the
corner of Peachtree and Piedmont Rd-- but to tell him to head west, not
south.

See whadda' mean, Vern ;-)

Patrick


 




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