Prompt to Confirm Deletion of Group

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From one of our users:
If you sort your Outlook messages by categories, you can select a category
heading and hit "delete" to delete the whole category. It prompts "are you
sure", and there's a checkbox to "never ask me again". I checked the box.
Now I find that I've accidentally deleted a whole day's worth of email
several times and it's annoying to go find them in "deleted". So... how do I
restore the prompt that says "are you sure", short of recreating my entire
outlook profile, which I'd rather not do.
Any ideas?
 
Outlook can only give you such a prompt when you delete from Deleted Items.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Actually, I tested it myself, and it does prompt you. If you customize your
view to include the "Categories" field, then group by that field - if you
click on the Category heading and hit delete you get prompted
"This action will apply to all items in the selected groups. Please do not
show me this dialog again."

I have a .bmp of it, but don't see a way to post images here.
 
Ah, I was thinking of a different prompt -- the one that occurs when you permanently delete items. Thanks for providing the extra details. Another Outlook MVP who had a machine that was still showing the prompt said that the information on what dialogs to avoid showing appears to be held in the HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Options\General\ key under a REG_SZ value named PONT_STRING. On this machine, that value looked like this after he told Outlook to stop showing the prompt.

31,

On my machine, it looks like this:

31,37,8,23,13,35,32,36,30,

since I have dismissed a lot more prompts. Apparently, each number followed by a comma stands for a particular dialog that Outlook will not show again, with 31 being the dialog in your case. 13 is the distribution list expansion confirmation dialog.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
That's it! And in case anyone else is interested, I did not have this
PONT_STRING value at all until I told it not to prompt me again. After
telling it not to prompt me again, the key was added. I deleted 31 from the
value, and the prompt reappeared.

Thanks so much.
 
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