Setting the Recycle Bin to Always Delete

The Recycle Bin is the special folders of windows on the hard disk to store deleted files and folders. These files or folders can be restored from the Recycle Bin to their original location if required for use. But you can set the Recycle Bin setting that the files and folders are deleted from hard disk are not placed in the Recycle Bin. So with the help of windows registry editor you can set the Recycle Bin to always delete items.

Follow the given steps to edit computer registry for Recycle Bin:

• First click on Start button then type Regedit in Run option.

• Here locate the location to:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Explorer\BitBucket

• Here in right side panel, double click on NukeOnDelete and set its value 1.

  Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

How to hide computer drives to secure data

This tip is very useful for home users, particularly for those who wants to hide/secure there important data from other users. You can hide any specific local drive or all drives (physical and removable) of the system and network drives also. By disabling the display of drives, you can safe your personal data from non-technical users on a single computer.

Follow the given steps to change the system drives registry value:

• To use this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with

administrative rights.

• Click Start button and type regedit in Run option then press Enter for next.

  • Here locate the location to:

  · HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion \Policies\Explorer

  
  

· Here in right side panel, right click to create a new DWORD value

with name NoDrives (it is case sensitive), then assign number

to its value data box.

· Now if you want to hide all system drives then modify value data

to 3FFFFFF .

· For specific drive use values (For example, for A, B, C, D, E, F, G,

H drives, the values are 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, and 128 respectively).

· In this case we are trying to hide F drive, so we modify the value data

box to 32.

· Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any

changes to go into effect.

· But next time, if you want to unhide this drive then simply change

the value data box or delete the DWORD item.

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Again close the registry editor and restart your computer after any

changes to go into effect.