Group Policy Do not move deleted files to the Recycle Bin
Posted by: Jason Brundage in Group Policy User, tags: Group PolicyMicrosoft Windows Group Policy Settings
Purpose of the Group Policy (policy name):
Do not move deleted files to the Recycle Bin
Path in Group Policy Manager:
User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Explorer
Supported on:
At least Microsoft Windows XP Professional or Windows Server 2003 family
Location in Registry:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Network!NoRecycleFiles
Description of Policy:
When a file or folder is deleted in Windows Explorer, a copy of the file or folder is placed in the Recycle Bin. Using this setting, you can change this behavior. If you enable this setting, files and folders that are deleted using Windows Explorer will not be placed in the Recycle Bin and will therefore be permanently deleted. If you disable or do not configure this setting, files and folders deleted using Windows Explorer will be placed in the Recyele Bin.
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Hey, thanks for the tip but what about if you want to undelete files which was already been permanently deleted from the Recycle Bin? What software would you recommend to newbies like me? Hope you can find the time to reply. anyway, thanks for sharing! …
There are many applications that will recover deleted files that have bypassed the recycle bin. For example http://www.diskinternals.com has an application called Disk Internal’s Uneraser that is fairly easy to use, and as long as the operating system has not over written the file you can recover the deleted file. Note, that once the file(s) has/have been deleted from the recycle bin, or bypasses the recycle bin the operating systems I/O marks the files as deleted so the the space the the file is taking up on the hard drive can be reused later on. If your hard drive does not have a lot of free space there is a good chance that the file the was deleted will or has been overwritten sooner than later. Good Luck!