Comments on: Deltree Command Replacement in Windows 2000 or Windows XP

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 01:11:20 +0000

Thanks, man.

I’m so lazy and set in my ways, I made a deltree.cmd file and put in my path. The super-simple 2 liner contains:
@echo off
rd /s %1 %2

this way you can use the quiet mode or not, depending on how confident you are. Thx again.

By: David T.

David T. — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:21:01 +0000

To clean up the “TEMP” folder during shutdown i use this two command in a gpo logoff script (it can be the local gpo for a stand alone computer)

@FOR /D %%i IN (“%TEMP%\*.*”) DO RMDIR /S /Q “%%i\”
@DEL /F /S /Q “%TEMP%”

Thx to David H. for the base command. I have just add the double quote “” in case of spaces in names of folders or files

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:24:03 +0000

Unfortuantely though in my experience you do not want to delete the directory itself only the contents.

e.g. I want to delete all files and subdirectories within c:\temp but i do not want to delete c:\temp.

with deltree it would have been deltree c:\temp\*.*

but now i would have to type:
RD c:\temp /s
MD c:\temp

ok i could write a batch file called deltree.bat and place it in my system path but i would prefer to use the original deltree, where has it gone and why??? its been about since MSDOS 5 after it was pinched from 4DOS.

By: Simple Dimple

Simple Dimple — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:18:20 +0000

That was a quick help dude.

By: Raj

Raj — Fri, 28 May 2010 13:40:00 +0000

Thanks Raymond

By: marked

marked — Tue, 04 May 2010 02:49:26 +0000

Moderator : Please run a spell checker over corruption weird meant rmdir Thanks

By: marked

marked — Tue, 04 May 2010 02:42:49 +0000

Hi, Good old Ubuntu Linux. I was able to delete an XP folder over my home network. The XP folder was a local Hardrive in NTFS format and had exceeded its file path length. A wierd corupption ment every time I renamed a long folder name it just kept on creating new repeat subfolders. No tinkering in Dos with rd or remdir would work. Linux just wiped the offending folder after I had copied the files I wanted to keep. Could have used a linux boot CD to achive same, but already had the drive accessible over the network. Of course you need to be cautious as this will wipe any folder on the windows drive with similar ease.