I used RegShot to capture the registry change when I disabled the Delete Confirmation on the Recycle Bin, but for some odd reason that seemed to Enable the Classic Desktop as well. Very strange. Does anyone know if this is normal behavior? Also, is this specific registry key different for every install or does it use the same set of numbers each time?

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-861567501-448539723-839522115-500\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]"ShellState"="24 00 00 00 3C 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 0D 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00"

I used RegShot to capture the registry change when I disabled the Delete Confirmation on the Recycle Bin, but for some odd reason that seemed to Enable the Classic Desktop as well.  Very strange.  Does anyone know if this is normal behavior?  Also, is this specific registry key different for every install or does it use the same set of numbers each time? 

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-861567501-448539723-839522115-500\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]

"ShellState"="24 00 00 00 3C 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 0D 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00"

Replace HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-861567501-448539723-839522115-500 with HKEY_CURRENT_USER

I did your suggestion and changed this

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-861567501-448539723-839522115-500\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]"ShellState"="24 00 00 00 3C 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 0D 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00"

to this

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]"ShellState"="24 00 00 00 3C 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 0D 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00"

but all it did was set the dekstop and Start Menu to Classic, the delete confirmation is still enabled. Any other ideas?

Try this reg key:

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\BitBucket]

"NukeOnDelete"=dword:00000001

========================

Rgds

Yokozuna

Sorry,

Don't do this I read your question wrong. This key I gave you is to enable the checkbox for "Do not move files to the Recycle Bin. Remove files immediately when deleted"

Moat,

I had a quick look but I was unable to trap the reg keys. I suggest you try running filemon & regmon utilities found at the following address:

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/filemon.shtml

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/regmon.shtml

Rgds

Yokozuna

;-Disable Delete Confirmation (Recycle Bin)[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]"ShellState"=hex:24,00,00,00,37,88,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 01,00,00,00,0d,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,00

I just tested this and it works.

The problem is with the "Display delete confirmation dialog" checkbox as it doesn't enable/disable it !

jrzycrim,

Did this uncheck the box and not change the Desktop or Start Menu to Classic form?

did you try what I posted? It works on my end...

jrzycrim,

Did this uncheck the box and not change the Desktop or Start Menu to Classic form?

It disabled the delete confirmation and did not revert to to the windows classic theme.

Ok, I will try this out as I see you have a backslash in your hex string. I did not see that in mine. I will let you know the resuts tomorrow. Thanks for the assistance

my install4.inf has a policy to disable it, and my website has a link to a website with group policies to control that. Just disable the prompt by policy. My friends don't mind, i install r-studio that undeletes data so if they accidently delete something they just use r-studio.

-gosh

Ok, I will try this out as I see you have a backslash in your hex string.  I did not see that in mine.  I will let you know the resuts tomorrow.  Thanks for the assistance

If a line of data needs to wrap to the next line, the backslash (\) character is used to indicate a continuation on the following line. If you look closely, the registry code you posted is not exactly the same.

Good Luck,

Jim

Thanks jrzycrim

That works

EDIT I take that back it changed start menu to old style and dumped the icons back on desktop. It did turn off Display Delete Confirmation though. I guess you need to get it the way you want and export key then.

Edited April 28, 200422 yr by maxXPsoft