Windows quickly delete large directory

Looks like this:. I succeeded I think in an easier way : Just create a new registry key to right click and delete. It will not prompt for confirmation though. Once you ve completed the steps, you can right-click a folder and select the Quick Delete option to remove a large folder super fast. I almost got fired. It is a batch file that has gui , it talks , it runs , it lets you play solitare , and searches google.

It took 2 years to finish the project that your program deleted. This batch file is very dangerous! Need to be noticed on.

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Dunno what you want to improve but you as end-user not really mess with the file system …. Richard said on July 18, at pm. Martin Thanks for this. Very useful. Mikhoul said on July 18, at pm. Matrix said on July 19, at pm. Ramon said on January 28, at pm. TelV said on July 18, at pm. Croatoan said on July 18, at pm. One file 45GB takes few seconds, files 1 GB a few minutes. Por la tanto. Kalin said on August 27, at pm. Be more positive! BradN said on October 20, at pm.

Emil said on July 18, at pm. Berlin said on July 18, at pm. Doc said on July 19, at am. Removes deletes a directory. No, shift DEL still does the pointless calculation. Mountainking said on July 19, at am. Is super fast for me….. Martin Brinkmann said on July 19, at am. It should not be super fast if the folder is huge meaning lots of files and folders inside. George said on October 14, at pm. Anonymous said on March 14, at am. Shadess said on November 25, at pm. PeaceByJesus said on January 23, at pm.

I combined that with the Measure-Command to see which of his three methods was more effective against a sample 3GB folder on the network with a variety of file types and sub-folders. Here is the script:. Might be worth a shot at least. Yes, I've seen posts about "Recurse", however it seems to be working for me in that the deletion is working just not as fast as i'd like.

There was another post about recuse that I've seen stating the following:. As far as I understood it, the -Recurse parameter just doesn't work correctly when you try deleting a filtered set of files recursively. For killing a single dir and everything below it seems to work fine. I would have to agree with that based on what I've seen so far, as i'm not filtering a set of files.

The example used on the ss64 site is using filtering. Regardless, the question still remains if there are other cmdlets or methods to fully delete a directory that may prove to be faster.

Remove-Item —Recurse now removes items from subfolders as expected. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Sign in. You can also output the DEL command to NIL to avoid the overhead to displays every single file that the command killed. You can put both commands in a batch file to finish both jobs in one shot or put the batch job in the scheduler to run them in regularly if needed.

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