Remove songs from itunes and disk drive

i have a bunch of songs that i rated as 1 star and now i would like to completely remove it from my itunes Music library AND from my hard disk. i read somewhere here that you can just simply 'delete' the song from the Music library and it will also remove the song from the physical location or it would ask you if you want to remove it from the physical location.. that didn't happen when i tried it. anyone know of another way?

Do you keep your songs in the iTunes Music folder or do you use another folder of your own making? iTunes will delete songs from the library and move them to Trash (Recycle Bin) only if they are in the iTunes Music folder. (iTunes will ask if you want to trash the file if this is the case, it doesn't trash it automatically). If your songs are kept outside of this folder then deleting only removes the reference to the song from the library and you have to go to the folder they are located in to trash the file itself:
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