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| From | knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.os.windows-10 |
| Subject | Re: Bypass Recycle Bin |
| Date | 2025-04-25 19:24 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <vuh5j8$11jlu$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On 4/25/2025 2:46 PM, Paul wrote: > On Fri, 4/25/2025 1:39 PM, Ed Cryer wrote: >> Paul wrote: >>> On Fri, 4/25/2025 1:00 PM, Ed Cryer wrote: >>>> I regularly empty folders of waste; Temp folders usually. They can be holding hundreds of files, so I bypass the Recycle Bin in its Properties; then switch back afterwards. >>>> Until today, that is. I've found a quicker and less troublesome way. >>>> Select files to delete, press the “Shift” and “Delete” keys together. >>>> Cool. >>>> >>>> Ed >>> >>> Yes, the Shift key also works for the "delete" choice in the menu. >>> You move your mouse away from the general area, press Shift, >>> then open the menu and select Delete. And that should avoid all the >>> "shifting and calculating", saving about half the time. >>> >>> I was deleting on the other machine, and we hit a new low today, >>> only able to delete 300 files a second. When you have 200,000 files >>> to delete, that is a pretty miserable level of performance. I'd >>> be better off booting Linux and deleting the files there. >>> >>> The delete command in Command Prompt, is likely to do better >>> than that, because no animation is required for that method. >>> >>> Paul >> >> What the dickens were you doing having 200,000 files to delete? >> Not even Edge comes close to that number on my system >> (:- >> >> >> Ed > > Win10 C:\Windows\servicing\LCU > > That can have 200,000 files in it, and it's a waste > of SearchIndexer munching time, to leave that there. > > That can be deleted (contents of LCU Last Cumulative Update). > It's up to you to decide whether that's a good tradeoff or not > (in case the system needs to roll back the Patch Tuesday Cumulative). > > It's a waste of time defragmenting that. It's a waste of > time for Agent Ransack to search through there. It's a waste > of time letting the SearchIndexer process it. Etc. > > Win11 doesn't have an LCU. > > Paul I routinely use the Empty Recycle bin button to purge the deleted items. I also routinely ran Disk Clean from the Property of the Disk on my old computer. I do the same to all programs that have that function. I also routinely delete the files in the \windows\temp folder. If it is in use you can not delete it. However I do not see disk clean on my new HP computer with a TB ssd(?) drive.
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Bypass Recycle Bin Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2025-04-25 18:00 +0100
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-04-25 13:28 -0400
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2025-04-25 18:39 +0100
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-04-25 14:46 -0400
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2025-04-25 20:16 +0100
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-04-25 16:11 -0400
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2025-04-26 12:10 +0100
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-04-26 08:52 -0400
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2025-04-26 19:05 +0100
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-04-26 19:38 +0000
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2025-04-25 13:13 -0700
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-04-25 16:31 -0400
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2025-04-26 15:02 -0700
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-04-25 19:23 -0400
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-04-25 19:24 -0400
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-04-25 23:50 -0400
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-04-26 08:55 -0400
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-04-26 14:43 +0000
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2025-04-26 19:19 +0100
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-04-26 19:30 +0000
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2025-04-26 15:07 -0700
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-04-26 19:30 -0400
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-04-27 15:43 +0000
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-04-26 17:12 -0400
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-04-26 19:12 -0400
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2025-04-25 12:51 -0700
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2025-04-25 17:58 -0400
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin Zaidy036 <Zaidy036@air.isp.spam> - 2025-04-25 16:13 -0400
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2025-04-25 13:19 -0700
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin Zaidy036 <Zaidy036@air.isp.spam> - 2025-04-25 18:28 -0400
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-04-25 19:27 -0400
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-04-25 19:28 -0400
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-25 14:08 -0700
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2025-04-25 20:29 -0500
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2025-04-26 10:10 +0100
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-04-26 16:36 -0400
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2025-04-26 22:01 +0100
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid> - 2025-04-26 16:38 -0500
Re: Bypass Recycle Bin VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-04-25 22:26 -0500
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