How To Get "Delete" Button Onto Menu/Tool Bar

[Bright Spark]

I'm new to using Windows 7, and I've looked everywhere and can't find
how to get the "Delete" button onto the Menu or Tool Bar (not sure
which one it is called). Win 7 seems to have removed it for some
unknown reason, and I would like to have it back as it's a pain to
have to keep right-clicking, scroll to delete and then click!! Greatly
appreciate any help available.

Thank you.

Bright Spark

 

[Wolf K]

I'm new to using Windows 7, and I've looked everywhere and can't find
how to get the "Delete" button onto the Menu or Tool Bar (not sure
which one it is called). Win 7 seems to have removed it for some
unknown reason, and I would like to have it back as it's a pain to
have to keep right-clicking, scroll to delete and then click!! Greatly
appreciate any help available.

Thank you.

Bright Spark

If you are talking about the menu/toolbar for some program, then it's
the developers of the program you should be asking: it's their
decision/choice on how to handle Delete.

There is of course the Delete key, but that will only work on a
highlighted item.

HTH
Wolf K.

 

[FD]

I'm new to using Windows 7, and I've looked everywhere and can't find
how to get the "Delete" button onto the Menu or Tool Bar (not sure
which one it is called). Win 7 seems to have removed it for some
unknown reason, and I would like to have it back as it's a pain to
have to keep right-clicking, scroll to delete and then click!! Greatly
appreciate any help available.

Thank you.

Bright Spark

I installed classic shell and it gives me delete button and other goodies.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/classicshell/files/

FD

 

[Ken Blake]

I'm new to using Windows 7, and I've looked everywhere and can't find
how to get the "Delete" button onto the Menu or Tool Bar (not sure
which one it is called). Win 7 seems to have removed it for some
unknown reason, and I would like to have it back as it's a pain to
have to keep right-clicking, scroll to delete and then click!! Greatly
appreciate any help available.

What's on menus and what's on toolbars is a function of what program
you are running. What program are you asking about?

 

[Bright Spark]

If you are talking about the menu/toolbar for some program, then it's
the developers of the program you should be asking: it's their
decision/choice on how to handle Delete.

There is of course the Delete key, but that will only work on a
highlighted item.

HTH
Wolf K.

Oh, sorry - I'm talking about the plain old Windows folders - I guess
it's Windows Explorer. Not any particular other program. It's the
Menu Bar which has changed and removed the "Delete" button. I would
like to get it back.

Thanks.

Bright Spark

 

[Bright Spark]

I installed classic shell and it gives me delete button and other goodies.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/classicshell/files/

FD

Well, that's certainly a possibility! Thank you for that link.

Bright Spark

 

[Bright Spark]

What's on menus and what's on toolbars is a function of what program
you are running. What program are you asking about?

No particular program - just plain old Windows folders - Explorer, I
think it's called.

Thanks.

Bright Spark

 

[Ken Blake]

No particular program - just plain old Windows folders - Explorer, I
think it's called.

OK, thanks for the clarification. On the Windows Explorer menu bar,
it's not exactly delete, but under Edit, you can find Cut, which is
effectively almost the same as delete. You can also find Cut under
Organize. But personally I'd rather click an item to select it,then
press the delete key on the keyboard.

 

[Wolf K]

Well, that's certainly a possibility! Thank you for that link.

Bright Spark

I have Classic Shell too. FD is right, it has what you want. Free, too.

HTH
Wolf K.

 

[Bright Spark]

OK, thanks for the clarification. On the Windows Explorer menu bar,
it's not exactly delete, but under Edit, you can find Cut, which is
effectively almost the same as delete. You can also find Cut under
Organize. But personally I'd rather click an item to select it,then
press the delete key on the keyboard.

Thanks - I see where that Cut button is - and I think maybe you're
right, that it's just better to hit the Delete key on the keyboard. I
just wish stuff would get left alone - I like my "old slippers"!! LOL!

Bright Spark

 

[Bright Spark]

I have Classic Shell too. FD is right, it has what you want. Free, too.

HTH
Wolf K.

Thanks.

Bright Spark

 

[Paul in Houston TX]

Thanks - I see where that Cut button is - and I think maybe you're
right, that it's just better to hit the Delete key on the keyboard. I
just wish stuff would get left alone - I like my "old slippers"!! LOL!

Bright Spark

Get Windows Classic. If not for that I would go back to XP.

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Bright Spark.

What Ken said: Highlight the file, then press the Delete key on the
keyboard.

Or, RIGHT-click the file and select Delete from the context menu that pops
up.

These behaviors haven't changed in several past generations of Windows.

RC
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"Bright Spark" wrote in message

What's on menus and what's on toolbars is a function of what program
you are running. What program are you asking about?

No particular program - just plain old Windows folders - Explorer, I
think it's called.

Thanks.

Bright Spark

 

[Bright Spark]

Thank you, RC. But what I was originally trying to do was to get that
Delete button back on the Menu Bar where it used to be for as many
generations of Windows as I can remember - I guess Win 7 has decided I
can't do that, so a different approach is necessary, and the ones you
mention are options. Thanks.

Bright Spark

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

Paul in Houston TX wrote:

Get Windows Classic. If not for that I would go back to XP.

Hear! Hear! Except in my case it would be Windows 2000. Classic Shell is
the very first program I installed in Windows 7.