How can I disable or hide "File Shredder" in the context menu?
I just accidentally shredded some files when I was trying to scan them, because of the ridiculous placement of the two options right next to each other in the right-click context menu. Thank goodness they happened to be files I was going to delete anyway, but one day I won't be so lucky.
I did in fact search for this question before making my own post, and I found an answer to the effect of "you can't, but it doesn't matter because it prompts you for confirmation anyway, so you'll never accidentally shred a file." This is blatantly WRONG. I got ZERO confirmation prompt. The files were gone the instant I misclicked.
I miss Kaspersky, which only gave me one option in the context menu: to scan. An antivirus's one job. (And it wasn't unnecessarily nested inside a sub-menu, either. That saved precious time and effort that I'm now wasting every time I need to scan a file.) I understand having additional options at my disposal, but why can't I decide for myself what I need easy access to and what I don't?
This is absolutely horrific design and I can't believe it was ever implemented this way in the first place. I don't care if I have to hack something. There has to be a way to fix it.
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Hi @Molly629
This question was also asked recently, and there really isn't any way to hide or disable it. You can see if Flexx software link would work from that thread, but we never got any feedback regarding if it did or didn't.
But you should have had a pop up window from Bitdefender verifying if you wanted to permanently delete the file, in my case right clicking to shred the desktop tabliss file.
You may need to run a repair, if that prompt isn't showing up on your end, as you mentioned.
Kind regards.
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Make use of this software:
Regards
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Yes, there's always a confirmation window before permanently deleting a file, to avoid accidental deletion. @Molly629 perhaps you didn't read this warning and clicked on "yes, delete". Here's how it looks like:
There's also a disclaimer informing the user that the files cannot be recovered once they have been deleted. In my opinion, it's quite difficult to delete a file unintentionally, under these conditions.
Frankly speaking, I don't see where else this function could be offered besides the context menu. And it was rated as very useful by many users. Bitdefender's File Shredder permanently deletes data by physically removing it from a hard drive. It runs 3 deletion passes on a file and overwrites it with random data so it cannot be recovered.Regards
Premium Security & Bitdefender Endpoint Security Tools user
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Thank you @Scott, I was afraid there wouldn't be a way but I had to ask.
@Alexandru_BD I did not get any kind of prompt. I wouldn't have said so if I wasn't certain of it. Maybe something is broken. In any case, I was very clear about why I want this gone, so I won't repeat myself. As for "where else this function could be offered" hmm idk how about in the application itself? Where you can find all the other features that aren't in the context menu? -_-
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