Disable Empty Recycle Bin Confirmation in Windows XP

Posted by Knox on Jan 11, 2010 in Tips & Tricks | 1 comment

When you try to empty the Recycle Bin using the Empty Recycle Bin context menu or from the Tasks pane, you’ll see the confirmation dialog as shown below:

I’m not sure if you guys find it irritating but it really does for me. It’s like Windows think that we’re really dumb and we don’t quite know what we are doing.  After some Googling, i found a solution on how to disable this confirmation prompt without editing any registry or any hassle. It is so easy that even a kid can do it. But the thing is, i didn’t know about this till yesterday.

Well the steps are as follows:-

1) Right Click on the Recycle Bin

2) Click on Properties

3) Untick the Delete Confirmation Dialog and click OK!

Yes that’s it! You’re done. From now on, when u press the “delete” key on your keyboard, there will be no more annoying prompt and it will be deleted straight to the Recycle Bin. Isin’t that great! Now just be careful when u press the delete key