Permanently Delete - Add to Context Menu

tomaskucinskas · 13 Feb 2012

Yes I know about more when 15 items selected, no I just trying with 2-3 files.

%1 not working even with single file or folder. %2 works with single, but no success with multiple.

Brink · 13 Feb 2012

I'm afraid that I'm not sure why it's not working for you with multiple items selected with it being used in Classic Shell instead.

tomaskucinskas · 13 Feb 2012

%2 is the problem, I think its for single file only.

Brink · 13 Feb 2012

I tested %2 using the method in the tutorial, and it wouldn't work at all. Only %1 worked using that method.

I'm not sure what would work with Classic Shell though.

tomaskucinskas · 13 Feb 2012

%1 yes it works from context menu. %1 with Classic Shell as I mentioned before not working, only %2, but only with single file

ICIT2LOL · 19 Mar 2012

So if I have it right Shawn I can delete permanently everything I pick down to just having the OS left on the drive? and I can use The Bare Foot Kid's tut to delete the whole drive?

I have a few old drives that I want to scrub up and this looks like what I want - but I just to make sure.

Brink · 19 Mar 2012

Hello John,

This is mostly for permanently deleting individual files. If you wanted to delete everything on a HDD, then using the "clean" command below would be a faster way to wipe it. :)

Disk - Clean and Clean All with Diskpart Command

ICIT2LOL · 19 Mar 2012

Thanks Shawn up with the goods again

Brink · 19 Mar 2012

You're most welcome. :)

fuqueue · 10 Apr 2012

This is pretty excellent. I was still pretty new to batch files, before reading this, I'm kind of stoked that I have a way to put my own commands into the context menu now. Did not know u could do that with registry =)

Is there any way to have it prompt user for something like "Are you sure you want to delete?"

Would it be possible to put an in-line prompt on the command in the registry? Like, I know this is not real syntax, 'Prompt "Are you sure?" | if yes do "sdelete.exe /p 3 /s %1"' ?? Did that make any sense? Can you do a prompt and a command all in the same line?

Or what if i put that sdelete.exe command into a batch script with the prompt, and the registry command could just run the batch file? How would that look?