Turn On or Off Recycle Bin Delete Confirmation in Windows 10  

Thank you DMD.

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

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.

DMD said:

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

Actually:

Allows you to have File Explorer display a confirmation dialog whenever a file is deleted or moved to the Recycle Bin.

If you enable ("1") this setting, a confirmation dialog is displayed when a file is deleted or moved to the Recycle Bin by the user.

If you disable ("0") or do not configure (delete "ConfirmFileDelete") this setting, the default behavior of not displaying a confirmation dialog occurs. Basically, just whatever the user has set.

(see option 2 and 3 below)
Recycle Bin Delete Confirmation - Turn On or Off - Windows 7 Help Forums

pietcorus2 said:

A reg-file would be very welcome for emptying the recycle bin without confirmation in Win10............

@pietcorus2,

If you like, I just created a new tutorial for a "Empty Recycle Bin" context menu that has an option to empty the Recycle Bin without confirmation. :)

Add Empty Recycle Bin to Context Menu in Windows 10 Windows 10 Customization Tutorials

pietcorus2 said:

We only want to empty without any asking , better no context-menu.....

You can't stop the confirmation to empty the Recycle Bin.

However, you use the .bat file below that uses the command from Option Six in the tutorial below to do so as a workaround.

Empty Recycle Bin.bat

PowerShell Clear-RecycleBin -force -ErrorAction:Ignore

Empty Recycle Bin in Windows 10 Windows 10 Performance Maintenance Tutorials