Quickest way to delete very large windows folder and files
Abdirahman Isse
Posted: 2020-07-12
Delete very large folders or files using the command prompt
If you have very large folders to delete, deleting it through Windows File Explorer will take a very long time. Using a command through command prompt or PowerShell is the quickest to delete large folders.
To delete using the command prompt;
1. Open the Windows command prompt by searching it on on the Windows search box
2. Navigate to the folder that you want to delete
3. Type DEL /F/Q/S *.* while inside the folder to delete. This will empty the folder by forcing the delete quietly without any prompts. Add > NULL to hide console echo of the files deleted. /F indicates forced delete, /Q to make deletion quite, /S to include all subfolders and *.* is all the files with all types of extensions. You can output the log to a text file by using > filename.txt