Delete Confirmation is missing the "Yes" button

looloo · Jul 22, 2024

Occasionally the "Yes" button will not load when I try to delete something. However, it does come back the moment I hover my mouse cursor over it. This doesn't happen every time, but it is annoying when it does. Is this normal for Windows 11? Anybody know why this happens and is there a fix for this?

andrew129260 · Jul 22, 2024

Interesting. I have never seen that.

Have you tried right clicking the recycle bin and going to properties, and unchecking the show delete dialog box, applying and then restarting?

Then re-enable it?

You could also test in a new user account to see if the issue continues there as well.

looloo · Jul 22, 2024

andrew129260 said:
Interesting. I have never seen that.

Have you tried right clicking the recycle bin and going to properties, and unchecking the show delete dialog box, applying and then restarting?

Then re-enable it?

You could also test in a new user account to see if the issue continues there as well.

No, I haven't tried that. But the thing is, it happens randomly, so it is very difficult to replicate it. I'll try doing that thing with the Recycle Bin properties though.

neemobeer · Jul 22, 2024

Normal for Windows, no not at all. Do you have anything 3rd party tools installed for customization?

Bree · Jul 22, 2024

looloo said:
....the thing is, it happens randomly, so it is very difficult to replicate it. I'll try doing that thing with the Recycle Bin properties though.

You may have a corrupt Recycle Bin. You can actually delete the Recycle Bin, Windows will re-create it next time you try to delete something. Use Option Nine here:

Empty Recycle Bin in Windows 11 Tutorial

This tutorial will show you different ways to empty the Recycle Bin for specific or all drives for your account or all users in Windows 11. The Recycle Bin provides a safety net when deleting files or folders. When you delete any of these items from a drive, Windows places it in the Recycle Bin...

www.elevenforum.com

looloo · Jul 22, 2024

neemobeer said:
Normal for Windows, no not at all. Do you have anything 3rd party tools installed for customization?

You mean something like rainmeter, right? No, I don't have anything like that installed.

Bree said:
You may have a corrupt Recycle Bin. You can actually delete the Recycle Bin, Windows will re-create it next time you try to delete something. Use Option Nine here:

Empty Recycle Bin in Windows 11 Tutorial

This tutorial will show you different ways to empty the Recycle Bin for specific or all drives for your account or all users in Windows 11. The Recycle Bin provides a safety net when deleting files or folders. When you delete any of these items from a drive, Windows places it in the Recycle Bin...

www.elevenforum.com

But usually when a Recycle Bin is corrupt it would mean that the files are stuck in there, right? I can delete, retrieve and empty the Recycle Bin without any issues. And as mentioned, the "Yes" button does come back immediately when I hover my mouse over that area, so I'm not sure it is actually corrupt.

antspants · Jul 22, 2024

Since when, looloo, can you guess? After an update?

Try Bree’s suggestion anyway.
Failing that, at the bottom of post one in the following link, there is a batch file.
Download and run it.

Windows 10 / 11 post WU installation cleanup script

Hey, folks, Thanks to a lot of wonderful folks here, we've made mention in a previous Insider topic about cleanup steps that can be run after Windows Update performs a major version install. Though these have been mentioned before by many, many people, it was this post by @IanMosley that...

www.elevenforum.com

antspants · Jul 22, 2024

If the DISM’s in that script don’t work, make sure you’re up to date with Windows Update. (Make sure anyway)
Failing that, consider a Repair install/Upgrade.

Repair Install Windows 11 with an In-place Upgrade Tutorial

This tutorial will show you how to do a repair install of Windows 11 by performing an in-place upgrade without losing anything. If you need to repair or create a new recovery partition or having problems with the Windows 11 operating system on your PC, and the usual solutions will not fix it...

www.elevenforum.com

Bree · Jul 22, 2024

looloo said:
the "Yes" button does come back immediately when I hover my mouse over that area

That suggests a graphics driver issue rather than anything specific to the Recycle Bin, check your driver is up to date. It would help us to help you if you filled in your system specs here: https://www.elevenforum.com/account/system-specs

antspants · Jul 22, 2024

Good suggestion.

looloo · Jul 22, 2024

Bree said:
That suggests a graphics driver issue rather than anything specific to the Recycle Bin, check your driver is up to date. It would help us to help you if you filled in your system specs here: https://www.elevenforum.com/account/system-specs

Yes exactly, I didn't think my Recycle Bin was corrupt at all because everything else seems to be working fine with it. I'll try to fill out everything when I have some time. But I am using an EVGA 3080 Ti. The driver is up to date, version 560.70. Does this mean that there could be something wrong with my GPU?

Bree · Jul 22, 2024

looloo said:
The driver is up to date, version 560.70. Does this mean that there could be something wrong with my GPU?

No, it's much more likely to be a bug in the driver. If you are on the latest one, then you could try rolling back to a previous one (if available) in Device Manager.

You could also see if changing the display resolution and/or scaling has any effect. Sometimes display 'oddities' like this only show at a particular scaling, with 100% being the least likely to have issues.

dacrone · Jul 22, 2024

Try to show full details in delete confirmations and see if that repopulates the Yes button. Just testing to see if it is a hiccup in that ui only it all related to recycle bin.

How to show the full details in Delete File confirmation dialog box in Windows 11

You can display or show the full file details in the Delete File confirmation dialog box which you see, when you go on to delete a file in Windows by tweaking the Registry.

www.thewindowsclub.com

looloo · Jul 22, 2024

Bree said:
No, it's much more likely to be a bug in the driver. If you are on the latest one, then you could try rolling back to a previous one (if available) in Device Manager.

You could also see if changing the display resolution and/or scaling has any effect. Sometimes display 'oddities' like this only show at a particular scaling, with 100% being the least likely to have issues.

I was actually on an older driver just last week. The new version 560.70 just came out. I was having this issue on the previous driver and with this new one.

For scaling, I'm using 175%. This is what works best for me with my 4K monitor. Anything under that looks way too small. So I am hoping it is just a bug in the driver that can be fixed later on.

dacrone said:
Try to show full details in delete confirmations and see if that repopulates the Yes button. Just testing to see if it is a hiccup in that ui only it all related to recycle bin.

How to show the full details in Delete File confirmation dialog box in Windows 11

You can display or show the full file details in the Delete File confirmation dialog box which you see, when you go on to delete a file in Windows by tweaking the Registry.

www.thewindowsclub.com

As mentioned, it comes back immediately when I hover over that area with my cursor. In fact, I think I can just click anywhere on my screen and the "Yes" button will come back.

dacrone · Jul 22, 2024

I read that. Was just seeing if the extended ui (showing all details) will auto populate the button as normal…

looloo · Jul 22, 2024

dacrone said:
I read that. Was just seeing if the extended ui (showing all details) will auto populate the button as normal…

There is no other button to show all details. There is only two buttons when deleting: yes and no. As you can see in the screenshot, there is nothing else.

dacrone · Jul 22, 2024

Read the link I posted. Enable the full details view of the deletion confirmation. See if that shows the correct buttons on that extended ui.

looloo · Jul 22, 2024

dacrone said:
Read the link I posted. Enable the full details view of the deletion confirmation. See if that shows the correct buttons on that extended ui.

Oh I see what you mean now. I completely missed your link. I will give this a try later on after testing the other stuff. I also seem to notice that it happens sometimes when I hit Win+D to show desktop and immediately deleting a file on the desktop. Maybe it's not loading fast enough after showing desktop? I don't know...