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Hi Guys,

I have a laptop with Win7-64 Home and a workstation with Win7-64 Pro.

At the opposite of my Pro version, my Home version opens a status window when I delete files, and it is very slow.

How can I suppress this window?

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Right click your recycle bin and select properties and then uncheck "Display delete confirmation dialog".
 
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Right click your recycle bin and select properties and then uncheck "Display delete confirmation dialog".
:eek: It's about the status window, not the confirmation window...
It's checked on my Pro version !
 
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:eek: It's about the status window, not the confirmation window...
It's checked on my Pro version !
Oh my GOD! :eek: Could you be more dramatic?
 

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The Pro version probably opens a status window too, but it finishes so quickly that you don't see it.

The Workstation is probably a lot faster than the laptop, the laptop probably has a slow 5400RPM hard drive, so deleting files takes a lot longer.
 
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Its the slow rpm,and data transfer rTes of the laptop, you can upgrade to an ssd, possibly increase ram, or cpu, but the buffer,or progress window is popping ip due to the time it takes for your laptop to complete the selected action, it would likely do the same when transferring files as well.....imo it has nothing to do with the os.
 
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May be, but I don't understand why my other explorer (PowerDesk) is much quicker !
 
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2 different types of machines different cpu's, amount of ram available, and speed of hard drives. You probably have a 7200rpm in your workstation with a lot more resources versus your laptop. You have yet to fill out either of your machines specs or inform us of said specs, make model etc.... so it is all speculation on where the culprit lies. but as said earlier speed of your hard drive and possibly more ram will affect that status window.
 

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Can you give us specs for both machines? I agree that if the machine is slower than it's probably your culprit. Do you notice any other things not responding as quickly? If it's a mechanical dive it could be failing. Does the drive make a lot of noises spinning up and down?
 
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Yes, I agree, my WS is more powerful, but this stupid status window is not displayed on it (or with PowerDesk)...
 

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Yes, I agree, my WS is more powerful, but this stupid status window is not displayed on it (or with PowerDesk)...

It is displayed, it is just so fast you probably don't notice it.
 
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:eek: It's about the status window, not the confirmation window...
It's checked on my Pro version !

Oh my GOD! :eek: Could you be more dramatic?

I'm no PC whiz by no means, but I do understand speed problems for gaming. I don't game. So, my understanding of the confirmation window affecting the speed of _______, well, it must be pretty drastic to cause so much anxiety.....:eek:......I see a daytime Emmy here.....anyway, either it's an inconvenience-having to stop, make a decision, follow through with the decision and push the "yes" button after moving the cursor , either by mouse, touch pad or touch screen. Curiosity begs, have you backed up everything on your not pro version and moved your pro version to the not the pro version? Are you able to sit them next to each other, open "Device Manager" and maybe see what the major differences are there , that would affect what your looking for elsewhere.
Very good major points have been made: RPM-vs-SSD: hand down, I don't care who makes it, SSD is gonna make RPM pay in the long run. Think about the structure: Everything in a laptop is more or less a "direct connection", while desktops are wired up, and workstations are...something in between. The lesson is the shorter the space between 2 items and the bigger the area to push info through the faster it will move from one place to the next-(yet wireless still remains a mystery to me.....faith? can't see it ya know) But I have not really seeing where you have checked your page file system-which by the way really do work and if everything is indexed for faster searching-it will cause a increase in system speed also. An OS can be "V-blah-blah.1.2.3" and be in a laptop, a desk top, a work station, a Android, a phone, a Mac, and a turddesigned P-2: Question, do they all run the same speed, and always appear the same? Doubt it. When you go to a doctors office, the in room PC's, they are all slaves to the main frame, yet they are all sometimes the same denomination. Accounting, appointments, front desk...different for a reason.
I have 3 Intel® Core™ Duo T730 @ 2.00GHz 4GB RAM (Corsair), all running Win 7 Pro. Government sale. So why does one not have a place called "Saved Games"? The smart one does. But it lacks in the video quality department for streaming. These are "Hardly Possible dv9000's" with add in video/TV cards, and one does not ever find the correct driver to make it work. One only wants to work right with Windows Word while the other two use Student 2007, will not change over for some reason to different versions and work well.
When you get to the bottom of that darn confirmation window problem, well, I'd like to know if it helped you relax a little ;) and thank everyone who helped you-and all the people who came here and learned something today. I learned you can ®click the your recycle bin and select properties and then check "Display delete confirmation dialog" to get that box back. Never thought about it that way. It worked!:clap: Thank you Mindweaver.,
So, off we go to the recycle bin to recover anything lost by accident-damn Government putters anyway-just don't understand the "new in box-never used-part.......
 

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What is that wall of text. It lagged my phone.
 
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In fact, I was looking for the best parameters into:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

or elsewhere...
 
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