If you decide to go the system route, NT/2000/XP have an equivalent of the 'rm -r mydir', namely
RD /S /Q mydir
or rmdir /S /Q mydir
It's certainly easier and quicker than having to walk the subtree deleting the files and then backing out removing the subdirectories.
Examine what is said, not who speaks.
1) When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2) The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible
3) Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke.