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in thread Win32: Deleting Temporary directories of all users on a machine (recursive)?

The built-in rmdir function will only remove a directory if it is empty.

del /s descends directories deleting the files, but leaves empty subdirectories in place.

rd /s gets shot of everything (assuming permission).

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