If you want to bypass the Recycle Bin on C Drive, select it. Under Settings for selected location, you should choose Don’t move files to the Recycle Bin. Remove files immediately when deleted.

Both also apply to Windows: The space in the recycle bin is limited and “deleted” files can be restored without much effort. It therefore does not offer protection for confidential content.

This article shows you how to empty Recycle Bin in Windows from the desktop, Explorer, Context Menu, Disk Cleanup, PowerShell, CMD, etc.

We're focusing this guide on Windows 10, but these Recycle Bin settings have been available in the OS for a long time, which means that you can use the same instructions on Windows 8.1 and Windows 7.

Once you are finished, you'll have a separate recycle icon on the taskbar—useful for quick access to deleted files without having to hunt down an icon on your desktop, especially since Windows 7 ...

You should know that by default, the Recycle Bin is set to occupy 10% of your hard drive. That means that if you have a 40-gigabyte hard drive, 4 GB are reserved for the Recycle Bin.