How to delete files without going to the recycle bin

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La Recycle Bin it has become a basic functionality of any system current operating. It's a temporary storage of all the information that we want to delete of our system, with the option of being able to recover it if we later change our mind.

On many occasions this element is of great importance, since it allows us to easily recover those files that we have accidentally deleted, but in others we do not want our files to go through this hidden directory on the system and we want them to be eliminated without further ado. With this little trick that we teach you today, you will know how to delete files without going to the recycle bin.

The Recycle Bin is a system item that works as intermediate container of those files and folders that have been erased from the computer before their final elimination. It is of great importance for users, since provides protection against accidental erasure Although it has also become a source of infection for numerous Trojans that took advantage of its characteristics to hide and avoid detection.

When deleting a file in Windows, either by pressing the button Delete or by right-clicking the mouse and choosing Delete, this is not deleted directly but goes to the Recycle Bin and will be permanently removed from the computer when we empty it. However, with the following trick you can get rid of the elements without using said medium. You must be careful since this method makes the deletion of the file or folder final and you will have many problems to recover the data in case the deletion occurs accidentally.

If we want to delete a file or folder from our system without it being sent to the recycle bin, we can permanently delete it by pressing the key combination Shift + Del. Windows is no stranger to this case and provides a warningwhile deleting via the Recycle Bin does not throw any notification.

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From now on you already know a method to delete the data from your computer more quickly.


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