Windows 10: cipher /w:URI_DIR -- So, if only some files were deleted - should the process finish soon?

Regarding:https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/is-any-way-reset-windows-10-but-only-permanently/1f05ba25-0c6c-4137-af79-6b27c1c5056dhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/cipher --- And "... Windows has a built-in command cipher. With parameter /w it will overwrite all free space. ..."===/w:<directory>Removes data from available unused disk space on the entire volume. If you use the /w parameter, all other parameters are ignored. The directory specified can be located anywhere in a local volume. If it is a mount poi

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Deleting files in Win Explorer - lose highlight after each deletion?

Is there a way to delete a highlighted file in Windows Explorer, and have the next file be highlighted, rather than outlined?

When reviewing files for deletion, it would be nice if you could step through a directory, file by file, to delete files or not, one by one, using the Preview Pane to review each file.

As it currently works for me, you can step up and down the file list using the up/down arrows, and each file becomes highlighted, but as soon as one is deleted, the following file becomes outlined, not highlighted, and it takes a click to highlight the file, or a up/down arrow, but that skips the outlined file in the process.

You can select multiple highlighted files by holding down the Shift key while using the up/down arrows, but that's not quite the intended process.

Can this be changed to have the next file be highlighted, following deletion of a highlighted file?

 

Encrypt a folder with Cipher

Hi Comdervids,

I’m Independent Advisor willing to help you. I would suggest to enclose the folder's name in quotations and use backslashes instead of forward-slashes like this:

cipher /E C:\Desktop\Derek's things

Or cipher /E C:\Desktop\"Derek's things"

Or cipher /E "C:\Desktop\Derek's things"

Best Regards,

Angel.

 

App for deleting files while being used by another process...

Most of the time, booting in safe mode, as administrator, will enable you to remove those files (maps).

however, there are some programs out there to do just whatyou ask, I once found one after some searching on google. So either try my suggestion, or in fact search on google perhaps?

"Force delete" will bring up enough info on this.