How to schedule automatic emptying of the Recycle Bin to increase hard drive capacity

When you click the delete button on a file or folder, you don't actually delete it from your computer. Data is only moved to the Recycle Bin, and still takes up hard drive space. Even though you know how to empty the Recycle Bin, you often forget this simple task.

Although there are many ways to empty the trash on Windows, the simplest is still right click in the trash and Select Empty Recycle Bin. But if you are a network administrator, or an IT Pro, let all of these operations be automated. I also regularly delete junk files and drafts, but only put them in the trash, not delete them. Because sometimes I need to recover if I need to review the manuscript, so I have a new routine of about 2 weeks Empty Recycle Bin 1 times.

In this article, AnonyViet will guide you on how to schedule automatic emptying of the Recycle Bin to increase hard drive capacity. This will help you proactively choose the time so that Windows can Empty Recycle Bin for you.

How to schedule automatic emptying of the Trash

Step 1: Click the button Starttyping Task Schedulerand press Enter.

Step 2: Right click Task Scheduler Library select New Folder.

Step 3: Name the newly created folder My Tasks

Step 4: Right click on the newly created folder and select Create task

Step 5: On the General tab, enter a name for the task, such as Empty Windows Recycle Bin.

Step 6: On tabs Triggers click new to create an action that will trigger the task.

Step 7: For the purposes of this tutorial, I will choose and configure accordingly schedule. But you can choose from several trigger actions like: At log on, At startups, On an event…

Quick tip: You can choose the schedule to be launched according to daily, weekly, Monthly…

Step 8: On tabs Actionsclick new

Step 9: In section Settingsplace Programs/scripts import cmd.exe

Step 10: In section Settingsplace Add arguments Type the command below, click OK

/c "echo Y|PowerShell.exe -NoProfile -Command Clear-RecycleBin"

Step 11: Press OK to complete scheduling

Once this step is completed, the command to empty the trash will be run automatically according to the schedule you have set up.