Windows 7 command line rmdir

Note This command is the same as the rmdir command. Submit and view feedback for This product This page. View all page feedback. In this article. Specifies the location and the name of the directory that you want to delete. Path is required. If you include a backslash at the beginning of the specified path , then the path starts at the root directory regardless of the current directory. Eleanor Reed. Download Win Download Mac. FAQs How do I force delete system32?

Users require administrative rights to effect the changes with System 32 folders. Can't delete DLL file access denied? Once loading of a DLL file takes place, it requires unloading for you to effect a deletion. How do I delete a folder that is not empty in CMD? How do I force a DLL to delete? In the Run dialogue box, type in sysdm. You'll get a System Properties dialog box. Lookup for the Hardware tab and open it. Locate your Device Manager window.

Double click on the Device Type. Next, select the Hardware Device The one displaying the. Open a Driver tab - for the. DLL and select on the icon to Uninstall. DLL file will disappear Deleted entirely. You Might Also Like.

How to Clear Cache and Cookies in Safari. How to Clear Cookies in Internet Explorer. Other popular Articles From Wondershare. Eleanor Reed staff Editor. This simple sample script completes without complications most of the time. The problem seems to occur with higher probability when it is important that the RMDIR should complete. I can try to find a more reliable way to make this fail if this is not an acceptable sample.

I know all this sounds a little crazy so just in case you refuse to believe me I've attached a snapshot. And I am more and more certain that this is a VMWare bug. Not even once. If Rudy could confirm that he was running his script in a VMWare machine Note the bold text:.

Still there. I wonder if indexing might have something to do with this. Indexing is shut off on my host system, while it is on in my VM.

I'm going to try shutting it off then retesting. I don't see any reason to think this has to be specific to a virtual machine, either. It may just have to do with the timing of the file system being different. I agree it is likely just a timing issue. But I was suspecting that either Windows Exploder or some other process is caressing these files while I was trying to delete them.

I was particularly suspicious of Tortoise SVN, as I am manipulating source repositories with my batch. But I never suspected the blasted Windows Indexer.

Never liked that thing really. Searching has gone to hell since WinXP. I do love my Win Search never finds anything. I must say that the error message from RD is also rather cryptic. I mean it makes sense in retrospect. If one realizes that a folder or file could not be removed because it was in use Then it makes sense. What I find curious is that I didn't get the error message from RD?

Here's a full rundown on what I know about Windows Search and indexing, and how to disable indexing yet retain all the useful parts of Windows Search such as the ability to search the Start Menu :. Indexing is supposed to make it quick and easy to find things on your computer using Windows Search that little box at the upper-right of the Windows Explorer application.

But when you think about it, does it make sense to read all the files on your disk, extract everything you could possibly want to search for, and store it on that same disk another way? To even consider indexing providing better performance than just searching the files, Microsoft must be picking and choosing the data they think you'll want to look for excluding data you WON'T want to search for , where you'll want to search, and in what kinds of files, and in fact they are.

How could they know everything you'll ever want to search for? Try this: Create a simple text file on your disk, in a temporary folder. Call it "FindMe. Now navigate to that folder with Explorer and enter the word "tax" into the Search box at the upper-right.

Enter any of the words in that file! You can do that with below command from elevated administrator command prompt. You should not have the Dir you want to delete open… Close it and then try the command again.

Could you kindly post the command for deleting my folder which is at Drive G. Name of the folder is Recycler. Thank you so much. No such warning with this command! How should i delete this avast5 folder with all the folders inside it???????????? Thank you so much for your help. This changed my life. I want to delete subfolders of a folder older than 10 days.

I am able to delete files but not folder. I wanted to know the bat file programm for deleting the contents sub folders of a folder on certain conditions.

Please somebody help………………………. Thank you very much! Hello, I have four folders and I want to keep two of them along with their contents and delete other two folders.