You’re used to choosing “Empty Recycle Bin”, of course: No? You don’t care? You hate that prompt? Okay, okay, let’s disable it.įirst off, you know the drill, right-click on the Recycle Bin to pop up the context menu. Nonetheless, I think that the confirmation of emptying the trash can, uh, recycle bin, is perhaps one of the more famous annoying confirmation prompts in Windows, and it’s still in the very latest version of Windows 10!įortunately it’s easy to disable this prompt, but before I show you the trick, let me ask: have you ever accidentally deleted a file, folder or photograph that you then couldn’t recover? Do you ever temporarily save files in the trash or run any programs that are perhaps over-enthusiastic about trashing data? I mean, it’s just a single click or tap, and then only if you have more than a single item in the recycle bin (sorry Microsoft, I think of it as the “trash” or “rubbish bin”) when you go to empty it… One person’s “too many prompts!” is another person’s “thanks for saving me from my own ignorance”. User interface designers tread a fine line between making it easy for users to (proverbially) shoot themselves in the foot and having so many confirmations and protections that the same user goes just a bit bonkers trying to accomplish anything.
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