

Right-click on individual items and choose Delete to permanently erase them, or choose Restore to send the file back to its original location. Once here, you'll see everything you've deleted recently. If you don't see that, type shell:RecycleBinFolder into File Explorer's navigation bar. You can access the Recycle Bin through the shortcut on your desktop. It's easy to forget that gigabytes of old data can sit in your Recycle Bin. While this might be obvious to you, we're including it in case some aren't aware. This is a special place where deleted files are kept until you permanently delete or restore them. Whenever you delete a file on your system, Windows sends it to the Recycle Bin.

The Recycle Bin is a special folder-while it appears under your C:\ drive, this is protected by Windows and you don't need to access it that way.


Windows Update Cleanup: This erases old copies of Windows Update files.However, the following options are low-hanging fruit (make sure to select Clean up system files first to see them all): This isn't a full guide to the Disk Cleanup tool, so we're not going to look at every entry in the menu.
