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Solve : Recycle Bin and Downloads Folder Data? |
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Answer» Where is the data physically stored, hard drive or RAM? If I let my recycle BIN get loaded with deleted documents and/or never delete documents and software downloaded and stored in my Downloads file, will that slow down my PC if I have plenty of unused capacity on my harddrive? Thanks. Recycle bin is more like a folder that is used as a collection of what should be junk, but its a last chance location for anyone who accidentally deleted a file. Its stored on the hard drive or SSD. ( *files are saved there when deleted unless hard deleted with shift+delete etc. ) One question...why are you letting it get that loaded ? ?...is this a hoarder syndrome ? ? Been almost one year since I worked on my SIL's old PC. She was not able to open any web pages using IE or Chrome without getting long running scripts or other script errors. I discovered 226 photos in her Win 7 Recycle Bin and she uses her Download file to store email attachments. Her PC has very limited RAM (512mb) so I wanted to be sure her Bin and Downloads file were on her harddrive. I installed a new harddrive for her which has plenty of capacity. But, I would say there is an element of hoarding going on for sure as she keeps thousands of old emails on her iPad and Verizon server. I have her HD set to auto defrag and that was OK. I have her IE11 browser set to delete upon exit and I manually deleted temporary files, etc on Chrome. I had to put Chrome on her PC because IE would not let her logon to Verizon webmail. Verizon knows this is an issue for some users but does not have a solution except to use a different browser. I ran Malwarebytes, AdwCleaner and JRT and got clean results. Also ran memtest86 to confirm RAM is ok. I disabled script debugging and script error messages. PC is working now but it is slow as a sloth. It is 12 or so years old and doing about the best it can. Thanks for your responses. |
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