Delete Files from the Windows 10 Recycle Bin: With the help of a program, you can add a function to the Windows 10 Recycle Bin so that its files cannot be recovered. Here’s how to do it!
When you choose to delete files in Windows 10 in the most traditional way, everything that is deleted from your PC ends up going through the trash, if you don’t use a shortcut like “Shift + delete”. Although such files no longer appear on your PC after they have left the Recycle Bin, the truth is that they can still be recovered with third party tools.
Fortunately, if you want to be a little more protected there is a solution for Windows 10, which makes your Recycle Bin have a function to delete files permanently. Next, here’s how to delete files from the Windows 10 Recycle Bin without letting them be recovered.
Important
Although it is not an official feature of Windows 10, the tutorial described below uses a tool from Sysinternals, which is approved by Microsoft itself, but which does not accompany the operating system.
As this is an unofficial system change, it is recommended that you make a backup of important files on your PC and create a restore point before proceeding to avoid any problems.
How to delete files from the windows 10 recycle bin
The process to safely delete files from Windows 10 shown below adds an option to the system’s Recycle Bin context menu, which is accessed by right-clicking on its icon. Check step by step:
1. Access this Microsoft page to download theSDelete tool;
2. Open the ZIP file and extract sdelete.exe to the C: \ Windows \ System32 folder. If you are using a 64-bit system, you must copy sdelete64.exe.
After you have copied the correct file, to add the option to safely delete in the Windows Recycle Bin menu, you need to make a small change to the system registry. Here’s how to proceed:
1. Press the “Win + R” keys together and, in the “Run” window, type: regedit. Press “Enter”;
2. Navigate to this path: Computer \ HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ CLSID \ {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} \ shell;
3. Right-click on “Shell” now and go to “New> Key”;
4. In the window that appears, name it “SecureDelete”;
5. Now, in the right part of the screen, double click on “(Default)” and enter the name “Secure Erase”. Click “Ok”;
6. Back on the left part of the screen, right-click on “SecureDelete” and go to “New> Key”;