Q&A for How to Delete a File in Microsoft Windows Using Batch Files

You can't actually do that, not unless you are from the corporation that made the device, or you can inspect element and force a code to run a simple deletion function, and that would seriously take some delicate thinking.

Open the file in any text editor such as notepad, wordpad, notepad++, etc. Then press CTRL+S or manually go to file and click "save as". From here you will need to change the file type bar to "All Files" and when saving the file you will need to save it as FileName.docx.

Check the recycling bin and see if it's still there. If not, unless you have a backup of your file or have it saved on another device, you can't restore it.

Adding /Q (which stands for "Quiet") between the "del" command and the file's extension will remove the confirmation. For example, instead of having del "notepad.txt" as your string of code, you would enter: del /Q "notepad.txt"