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options:

Press the Delete key.

Click the Delete button on the Ribbon’s Home tab.

Choose File → Delete.

Right-click a highlighted icon and choose Delete from the
shortcut menu.

Windows asks if you’re sure you want to send the item to the Recycle Bin;
it provides a good chunk of information about the file in the warning
window, for your safety. (You don’t lose much by clicking Yes, since it’s

easy enough to change your mind, as you’ll see.) Now the Recycle Bin icon
looks like it’s brimming over with paper.

You can put unwanted files and folders into the Recycle Bin from any

folder window or even from inside the Open File dialog box of many
applications.

Note

All these methods put icons from your hard drive into the Recycle Bin. But deleting an icon from
a removable drive (a flash drive, for example), from other computers on the network, or from a
.zip file, does not involve the Recycle Bin. Those files go straight to heaven, giving you no
opportunity to retrieve them. (Deleting anything with the Command Prompt commands del or
erase bypasses the Recycle Bin, too.)

Making the Recycle Bin Less Naggy

When you get right down to it, you really have to work to get rid of a file in

Windows. First you have to put the thing in the Recycle Bin. Then you have
to confirm that, yes, you’re sure. Then you have to empty the Recycle Bin.

Then you have to confirm that, yes, you’re sure about that.

Fortunately, those are just the factory settings. There are all kinds of ways
to eliminate some of these quadruplicate confirmations. For example: