Mass deleting files in windows

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Published on 2009-08-07T07:00:33Z Indexed on 2010/04/03 16:33 UTC
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I have a directory, that contains ~ 3 million files in certain subdirectories on a Windows 2008 server. Manually deleting the files via SHIFT+DEL on the root dir takes ages. Is there any other way to do the deletion in a faster manner?

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