Windows 10: Turn On or Off Recycle Bin Delete Confirmation in Windows 10

How to: Turn On or Off Recycle Bin Delete Confirmation in Windows 10

How to Turn On or Off Recycle Bin Delete Confirmation in Windows 10


The Recycle Bin provides a safety net when deleting files or folders. When you delete any of these items from your hard disk, Windows places it in the Recycle Bin and the Recycle Bin icon changes from empty to full.

If you have multiple hard drives, partitions, or an external hard drive connected to your PC, each location will have its own $Recycle.Bin and Recycle Bin settings. Removable drives, such as USB flash drives and memory cards, will not have a Recycle Bin. Files deleted from removable drives are permanently deleted.

If you don't want to receive a delete confirmation dialog message each time you move a file or folder to the Recycle Bin, you can choose to not get the messages.

If you delete a file or folder that's larger than the set maximum storage size of the Recycle Bin, then you will always get a This file is too big to recycle. Do you want to permanently delete it? confirmation message like below.




If you empty the Recycle Bin, you will always get a Are you sure you want to permanently delete...? confirmation dialog like below.







This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off the Recycle Bin delete confirmation dialog for your account in Windows 10.


EXAMPLE: Recycle Bin delete confirmation dialog









Here's How:

1. Right click or press and hold on the Recycle Bin, and click/tap on Properties. (see screenshot below)



2. Select the Recycle Bin location for the drive (ex: C ) you want at the top. (see screenshot below)



3. Check (on) or uncheck (off) the Display delete confirmation dialog box for what you want, and click/tap on Apply. (see screenshot below)



4. Repeat step 2 above if you have another Recycle Bin location you want to turn on or off the delete confirmation dialog for.

5. When finished, click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below step 3)



That's it,
Shawn


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Permanently delete confirmation pops up even though disabled in Recycle Bin properties

My question was not about delete confirmations outside the recycle bin.

My question was about delete confirmations when emptying the recycle bin.

 

Permanently delete confirmation pops up even though disabled in Recycle Bin properties

Hi,

To better assist you regarding your concern, we would like to ask some questions:

• Are you referring to deleting the file inside the recycle bin?
• Are you referring to deleting the file outside the recycle bin using
  SHIFT key + Delete?

Deleting files inside the recycle bin always asks for a confirmation prompt. It is the normal behavior of the recycle bin. And if you are trying to delete the files outside the recycle bin using using
SHIFT key + Delete it will also ask for a confirmation prompt because the files you are trying to delete will be permanently deleted and will no longer be stored in your recycle bin.

Let us know how it goes.

 

Hello @Pietcorus, *Smile

This delete confirmation is for when you delete an item for it to go into the Recycle Bin instead.

If you empty the Recycle Bin, you will always get a "Are you sure you want to permanently delete...?" confirmation dialog.

 

Ok, I see, my intention is to remove "Are you sure you want to permanently delete...?" confirmation dialog .
I see this as an "overkill" ,coz you have choosen for removal and then you are asked again "are you sure " , is it possible to remove this disturbing asking............?

 

I'm not aware of a way to disable the confirmation prompt to empty the Recycle Bin.

 

Ok, well thank you anyway Brink, maybe later we will find a way to remove the " bloated dialogs "..........*Smile

 

I'll always be on the look out. *Smile

 

I think this confirmation should always remain. It is the last line of defence to stop losing file permanently without having to use specialist tools. On many occasions, I have gone to empty bin but warning has made me think "maybe not".

I am more cavalier about deleting files to the bin as I know I can get them back quickly if I screw up (as we all do). Of course, good old Macrium images are my fallback but more hassle.

 

I agree. Otherwise, it'll be way too easy to permanently delete something by mistake.

 

Good morning
If it can be useful, I have tried to enable deletion confirmation with this registry key and it works, so that it is effective to run it is required to reboot.

Enable confirms file deletion
Code: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer] "ShellState"=hex:24,00,00,00,33,28,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 01,00,00,00,13,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,62,00,00,00[/quote] Disable deletes file confirmation
Code: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer] "ShellState"=hex:24,00,00,00,37,28,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 01,00,00,00,13,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,62,00,00,00[/quote]

 

Thank you DMD.

The values for that will vary depending on the selected drive, and will not always be the same everyone. *Sad

 

The key only affects the current user, but I have verified that the selection remains active even on other HDDs.
If you want you can try to give a confirmation.

Thank you

 

I tested it on a few of my other systems, and the data value for "ShellState" varied on all of them. In addition, "ShellState" includes other settings than this one.

If you have another PC to test on, you'll notice the data value will not be the same.

This would be fine to export and import for a specific PC, but it just wouldn't be good to import on all systems. *Sad

 

Thank you for your confirmation.
A better solution is to act through the policy command
Value "1" On and value "0" off

Code: @echo off reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer" /v "ConfirmFileDelete" /t REG_DWORD /d "1" /f taskkill /im explorer.exe /f & explorer.exe exit[/quote]