Microsoft engineers in all their wisdom, or perhaps Bill Gates, have made some assumptions about the users of computers and have thus created their own set of standards as to what the original settings or default settings of a particular piece of software would have. In the past, they were extremely conservative and made some statements and decisions that have come to haunt them and plague us. In the here and now - starting with Windows 95 - and perhaps in Windows 3.0 or 3.11 - they went the other direction and have become very liberal with settings which can be tweaked by the end user, which will give their computer better performance with little downside effects. Several of these are rather simple and hopefully I can explain it so that you can understand how to do this. Such an item is one's Recycle Bin - the little trash can sitting on the desktop - screen one sees when Windows opens. The default setting for the size of the Recycle Bin is 10% of your hard drive. That means that if you have a hard drive that has a capacity of 1 Gigabyte - 100 megs is set aside, just for trash - that you 'may' toss there. By decreasing the size of the Recycle Bin to say 1% - 10 megs on a 1 Gigabyte hard drive, one frees up 9% of one's hard drive or 90 megs which are then available for you to either use to put other files on, or leave empty. Either way you win. If your hard drive is even larger and basic systems now come with 40 Gigs, then the Recycle Bin becomes huge (4 Gigs) and the wasted space enormous (3.6 Gigs)! To modify the size of your Recycle Bin, click on the Recycle Bin, right click and select properties from the selection menu. You may show more than one drive listed there - but you want to use the Global setting - ie a 1% setting for all drives - so make sure the selection you are moving the bar on, says 'Global', if you have more than one hard drive. You should see a bar graph in the middle of the part that opens - with a slide mechanism pointing to 10%. Grab the mechanism with your mouse and move it to the left until it reads 1%. Then select OK, and you are done. Feedback on the clarity or lack thereof appreciated. Tim