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Enable the Windows 8 delete file confirmation dialog

  • Artikkeli

Updated: Same instructions for Windows 10

You may find that in Windows 8 / Windows 10, when you delete a file, you don't get prompted to confirm whether you want to delete it or not.  If you press SHIFT+DELETE then you will get prompted. However, if you want to re-enable the delete file confirmation dialog, you can do so by right-clicking on your RECYCLE BIN and then clicking PROPERTIES.  From there, you can check the DISPLAY DELETE CONFIRMATION DIALOG checkbox and hit APPLY.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    February 09, 2013
    thank you

  • Anonymous
    February 12, 2013
    Thank you so much

  • Anonymous
    February 19, 2013
    Thanks for this valuable information.  I've been looking for this switch in the many places and in the Control Panel items and found none.  So glad you posted this info here.  Thank you!!

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2013
    thank you so much to sharing such a informative help for me.

  • Anonymous
    April 07, 2013
    Excellent thanks for the quick fix!

  • Anonymous
    June 21, 2013
    Thank you so much

  • Anonymous
    July 16, 2013
    Thanks for the tip. But why MS changed the default behavior?

  • Anonymous
    July 17, 2013
    Don't know why they changed it :/

  • Anonymous
    October 23, 2013
    thanks a lot

  • Anonymous
    October 26, 2013
    Thank you so much

  • Anonymous
    November 04, 2013
    Thanks a lot !

  • Anonymous
    November 08, 2013
    thank Q useful info.

  • Anonymous
    December 09, 2013
    Bom dia

  • Anonymous
    January 04, 2014
    Thanks for this info :)

  • Anonymous
    February 18, 2014
    Thanks

  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2014
    10x a lot

  • Anonymous
    February 26, 2014
    Much appreciated, thank you!

  • Anonymous
    March 15, 2014
    thanks bro!

  • Anonymous
    March 20, 2014
    Thanks, Mohammed. Seems like a pretty strange default setting for such a new feature, after all these years.

  • Anonymous
    March 23, 2014
    thank you very much.

  • Anonymous
    May 22, 2014
    really it is too much helpful.....thnx... :)

  • Anonymous
    June 18, 2014
    Very useful and clearly explained.

  • Anonymous
    June 19, 2014
    Very helful

  • Anonymous
    August 21, 2014
    thanks a lot

  • Anonymous
    September 14, 2014
    Thank you and so simple. why is this not thedefault for W8?

  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2015
    Like others I looked all over my Win8 laptop & queried help with every keyword I could think of to try to reverse this insane decision on the part of Win8 designers. Is no one at Windows aware deletions from removable storage just go away forever, so that an accidental deletion (and what is easier on a touch screen device?) can be absolute disaster? Not too swift, guys. They couldn't have put the "enable confirm" in a more unlikely place if they'd thought it out with both hands! Thank you so much for posting this.

  • Anonymous
    August 11, 2015
    Thank you very much.  Saved my time.  Stay blessed!!

  • Anonymous
    September 01, 2015
    thank you! this is going to cause problems! lots of files are going to accidentally be lost.

  • Anonymous
    September 19, 2015
    Windows 10, your method works fine. Thank you!!!

  • Anonymous
    October 12, 2015
    The Recycle Bin is probably the right "place" where to manage this feature, but I wasn't so clever to find it... Thank you.  

  • Anonymous
    October 12, 2015
    Been searching the internet.  Best response!!! Awesome, well done.

  • Anonymous
    October 24, 2015
    Thank you! Was irritating me on W10!

  • Anonymous
    October 27, 2015
    Thank you!!!

  • Anonymous
    October 28, 2015
    Thank you for this little but very helpful information.

  • Anonymous
    December 06, 2015
    Thanks for this info! I think the change does make sense though, considering the recycle bin is there for exactly that reason, to prevent accidental deletions. I'm a creature of habit though, and am too used to it from 20 years of using Windows =) A second confirmation is not really necessary, especially because you learn in HCI that a confirmation immediately after giving the command is not usually going to help anyway, because people just confirm that they really wanted to issue that command... I think it still confirms by default if files are not just moved to a recycle bin, though, such as for some external storage, depending on its configuration. So I can't confirm AntRhonda's concern, it seems to work fine. However, I do agree that the positioning of the setting is a bit weird. There are already so many settings dialogues related to Explorer, who would've thought that the Recycle Bin would get its own exclusive ones now, too.

  • Anonymous
    December 09, 2015
    Thank you Mohammed Adenwala. ;-) Fast and effective. Blessings

  • Anonymous
    December 10, 2015
    This is very helpful. Thank you so much.

  • Anonymous
    January 16, 2016
    Extremely useful - thank you very much. (Why MS disabled the default prompt after so many years is beyond me. 'If it ain't broke ... break it!')

  • Anonymous
    February 22, 2016
    thanks so much

  • Anonymous
    February 22, 2016
    Thank you so much..This is very helpful..

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2016
    Thanks a lot u r a life saver

  • Anonymous
    April 19, 2016
    thank you!

  • Anonymous
    June 21, 2016
    Yes, it's a problem!

  • Anonymous
    July 06, 2016
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    July 30, 2016
    thankzzzzzzzzzzz

  • Anonymous
    September 22, 2016
    thanks