I am trying to fix an HP Pavilion A610E, running WinXP SP3. The Recycle Bin icon on the desktop shows that there are files in it, and when I right-click it, it does give me the option to empty.

A lot of the programs I’m using for the Internet keep sending stuff to my Recycle Bin, things like “temp” files, etc. This results in memory problems. I would like to prevent items from going to the ...