Windows has included one series of tools so that we can configure our PC as we wish, and we achieve this by traveling for all its functions. But to make things easier for us, this guide will show you in detail a feature that is of great interest, How to enable and disable deletion confirmation in Windows. When studying this article, let’s look at ways to see what deletion confirmation messages are that may appear to you.
Think, for example, what it would look like from the Recycle Bin and using Delete in your file manager, we will know this if we read this article in detail. We would also answer the following question: What do you need to do to disable and re-enable deletion confirmation messages? Let’s see.
What deletion confirmation messages might appear to you?
Deletion confirmation messages that may appear to you are those that can be deleted from the Recycle Bin or directly fromr Delete in your file manager. Before proceeding with the deletion, a window is displayed which indicates certain details of the file you are about to delete. This way you have the ability to correctly check if it is the file you want to delete and thus accept or decline that deletion.
From the recycle bin
To confirm the deletion messages that may appear from your Recycle Bin, just follow these steps in detail:
- Right click on the file you want to delete, you will get a list of options, choose the one titled ‘Delete’, or use the ‘Delete, delete or delete’ key on the keyboard.
- This will be by default, will send the file to the recycle bina verification window will be displayed, which you can choose ‘Yes or No’.
- Depending on the details seenif it is the correct file that we want to delete, we should say that Yes, if it is not the file that we would like to delete, then we press that No.
Delete in your file manager
To confirm the deletion messages that may appear when you delete Delete in your file manager, just follow these steps in detail:
- Like this form of disposal is directwithout having to go through the recycle bin, select the file.
- Proceed to use the keyboard shortcut, ‘Shift, Delete, delete or delete’ from our keyboard, which you will see that the icon is different.
- Once here, the recycle bin is no longer displayed, if we accept ‘Yes’ here, it will be completely removed from your computer, without the possibility of retrieving it from the recycle bin.
- In case you have regretted deleting the file, press ‘No’ and the file will remain in place as you will see on the screen.
What do you need to do to disable and re-enable deletion confirmation messages?
In order to deactivate and reactivate the deletion confirmation messages, you only need to follow in detail the following instructions that we will present:
- Right click on the ‘Recycle Bin’, we go to ‘Properties’, you will see a box marked ‘Show dialog box to confirm deletion’.
- Next, if you’re going to disable delete confirmation messages, uncheck it; and if you are about to delete deletion confirmation messages, leave it checked.
- Next, let’s click on ‘OK’, now when we delete a file either directly or we want to send it to the recycle bin, if we deactivate it we will not receive that message.
- If we have activated it, we will receive this message, right click on the file, then ‘Delete’, if it is active a confirmation window will appear click on ‘Yes’.
Using your registry editor
To be able to deactivate and re-enable deletion confirmation messages Using your registry editor, just follow these steps in detail:
- We use the ‘+ R’ keyboard to set the use of the ‘Run’ optionenter the word ‘regedit’ and click ‘OK’.
- When you open your registry editor, you’ll navigate to the HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWARE NMicrosoftWindows CurrentVersion Policies Explorer key, then right-click on the panel on the right.
- Click New> DWORD Value (32-bit), rename it ConfirmFileDelete, double-click the new DWORD to set the value to ‘0’, to turn off messages.
- To activate confirmation messages, click New> String Valuerename it Fileoperationgroup, double-click it and a small window will appear, paste the following: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWARE NMicrosoftWindows CurrentVersion Policies Explorer.
- Then double-click the new DWORD to set the value to ‘1’, and this will end up activating the confirmation messages.
- Finally, exit the Registry Editor and then proceed to restart the PC so that all the changes are executed correctly.
Using the Group Policy Editor
To be able to disable and re-enable deletion confirmation messages using the Group Policy Editor your Windows computerjust follow these instructions:
- We use the keyboard ‘+ R’ to set the use of the choice ‘Run’, then proceed to write the word ‘gpedit.msc’ and click ‘OK’.
- When opening Group Policy Editor, go to this ‘settings’: ‘User settings> Administrative templates> Windows components> File browser’.
- Locate the ‘right pane’ and double-click on it ‘Show confirmation dialog when deleting files’and leave it activated.
- This will allow you to see ‘delete confirmation messages’ when a file is deleted or when it is in the Recycle Bin.
- However, if applicable or want to disable ityou will not ‘show deletion confirmation messages’.
- Now, exit Group Policy Editor and then restart the PC for all changes to run.