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ColtCanyon
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Nov 04, 2025

Updated tutorial for RecycleBin Secure Delete

I have a new Windows 11 PC...a significant upgrade from the old Windows 10 machine.

In TenForums.com I found the tutorial for how to use SDelete from the Recycle Bin context menu to shred files that are deleted. This tutorial kind of works in Windows 11. The old Windows 10 registry entries to add the command to the context menu are still available, but only if I select "Show more options" from the context menu that is displayed when I right-click on the Recycle Bin icon. I looked through the tutorials on this site for an updated registry changes to add Secure Delete to the primary Win11 context menu, but was unable to find anything.

Did I miss something? Having this functionality available from the top context menu would be very useful for me.

Thanks,

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  • KaiSullivan's avatar
    KaiSullivan
    Iron Contributor
    Nov 06, 2025

    To add SDelete (or any secure delete command) directly to the main (top-level) context menu in Windows 11, you'll need to create or modify registry entries. Since you've already seen the old Windows 10 instructions.

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