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Well, actually it is not a static value. The recycle bin is allotted with 10 percentage of your hard disk space. You can change it too if you want; as below;<br />
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<a href="http://windowstipoftheday.blogspot.com/2005/03/changing-size-of-recycle-bin.html" rel="ugc">http://windowstipoftheday.blogspot.com/2005/03/changing-size-of-recycle-bin.html</a><br />
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Checkout the link.<br />
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Cheers,<br />
Rajesh
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Well, actually it is not a static value. The recycle bin is allotted with 10 percentage of your hard disk space. You can change it too if you want; as below;

http://windowstipoftheday.blogspot.com/2005/03/changing-size-of-recycle-bin.html [http://windowstipoftheday.blogspot.com/2005/03/changing-size-of-recycle-bin.html]

Checkout the link.

Cheers,
Rajesh

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You cannot. &nbsp;Reference Microsoft MVP Alex Nichol in this posting:<br />
<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/browse_thread/thread/d37558e1b887a61c/c04bb616dcd10579?lnk=st&q=recycle+bin+maximum+size+3.99&rnum=4&hl=en#c04bb616dcd10579" rel="ugc">http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/browse_thread/thread/d37558e1b887a61c/c04bb616dcd10579?lnk=st&q=recycle+bin+maximum+size+3.99&rnum=4&hl=en#c04bb616dcd10579</a><br />
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Possibly in XP 64 bit OR Vista...
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You cannot.  Reference Microsoft MVP Alex Nichol in this posting:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/browse_thread/thread/d37558e1b887a61c/c04bb616dcd10579?lnk=st&q=recycle+bin+maximum+size+3.99&rnum=4&hl=en#c04bb616dcd10579 [http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/browse_thread/thread/d37558e1b887a61c/c04bb616dcd10579?lnk=st&q=recycle+bin+maximum+size+3.99&rnum=4&hl=en#c04bb616dcd10579]

Possibly in XP 64 bit OR Vista...

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I have XP 64 still no luck.
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you can try modifying or adding this registry key<br />
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HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software<wbr />\Microsoft<wbr />\Windows\C<wbr />urrentVers<wbr />ion\Polici<wbr />es\Explore<wbr />r<br />
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&quot;RecycleBinSize&quot;=dword:000<wbr />0000a
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you can try modifying or adding this registry key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

"RecycleBinSize"=dword:0000000a

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That's most likely why you can't - a dword of FFFFFFFF = 4 billion (4 GB) <br />
And the range is 00000000 to FFFFFFFF<br />
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If Vista uses a different value type then you can go higher - but XP expects that to be an 8 byte DWORD.
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That's most likely why you can't - a dword of FFFFFFFF = 4 billion (4 GB)
And the range is 00000000 to FFFFFFFF

If Vista uses a different value type then you can go higher - but XP expects that to be an 8 byte DWORD.

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The recycle bin has a maximum of 3.99 GB.<br />
To the best of what I checked it cannot be changed.<br />
Do you know of a way to change it?
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The recycle bin has a maximum of 3.99 GB.
To the best of what I checked it cannot be changed.
Do you know of a way to change it?

Change recycle bin maximum of 3.99 GB.

Microsoft Windows XP is the sixth release of the NT series of operating systems, and was the first to be marketed in a variety of editions: XP Home and XP Professional, designed for business and power users. The advanced features in XP Professional are generally disabled in Home Edition, but are there and can be activated. There were two 64-bit editions, an embedded edition and a tablet edition.