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Windows: delete files without trash

  • Sep 29, 2025
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The Windows recycle bin is a blessing and a curse at the same time. You can delete files without this intermediate step. We will show how this works.

Files without the recycle bin, delete - Shortcut

Windows lets you use any file without the trash. This is achieved already with a simple key combination:
  • To do this, select the file to be deleted and press the keys [Alt] and [Del].
  • Windows now asks, whether the file is to be deleted irrevocably. Caution: do not Confirm the warning only if the document really need.
Permanently delete files

Spick and span files from the trash

With this simple Trick you can delete in the future all of the files without the recycle bin. However, the already remote documents do not get rid of in this way. Here, the trash itself will help you but:
  1. First go to the Windows recycle bin.
  2. Now click on "empty trash" and confirm the warning with "Yes".
  3. Thus, these files are permanently deleted.
Windows-empty recycle bin
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