Reduce Recycle Bin maximum Size

Issue:

How to "REDUCE RECYCLE BIN MAXIMUM SIZE" for Optimization of PC

Symtom:

When you "Turn ON" PC it is too slow.

Cause:

This is set fairly high by default, around more than 10% which will affect your speed if your your available disk space is less. So you can try to set that to 3%, there`s really no need to set it higher than that.

Solution:

1. To do this right click your recycle bin--> and then click on properties.

2. Now Under Global in the Recycle Bin properties window--> move the slider and click apply.

Disable hard disk drives in windows xp

By default, Windows XP spins down all hard drives after 20 minutes of inactivity to save power. This can cause significant delays when it is necessary to access the drives after this time. To increase performance and reduce wear and tear on your drives, disable this feature in Windows XP`s power options.

hiberfil.sys in Windows XP

What is hiberfil.sys and how to delete it to gain some space on HDD?

As from our last post, why your hard drive is always shrinking even though you did not do anything, we talked about using the freeware TreeSize to view where you have the largest chunk of data on your hard drive. If you look deep enough you will found out that there are two files called pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys that occupy over few GB of hard drive space. If you are the kind person that does not use Hibernate then this article is for you.

When you turn off your computer using hibernate, the operating system needs to store all your current running program states onto hard disk so that programs can resume where they left off when you power up your PC again. To achieve this, the OS need to save all the information into a file called hiberfil.sys. Windows OS (7, vista, XP) usually stores this as a hidden file under your C directory or your main OS partition.