Deleting files with Shift+Del in Windows 95/98

Over all those years using Windows 95/98/98SE, I had issues with permanently deleting files with the Shift+Del key combination: Either I'd get the vanilla deletion dialog (after which I had to retry) or sometimes I'd hit lucky with a real permanent file deletion dialog.

This Summer I discovered that the trick was to hold the Shift key until the permanent deletion dialog appeared, which then seemed to solve my problem with all this.

Showing exe files' extensions in Windows

Regedit HKCR\exefile, add new string AlwaysShowExt.

The same applies to other filetype descriptions, like exefile, some of which might be more elaborate than that.

Restart.