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Vance Hunt
has provided home-user help desk style support for his consulting company for over 6 years. Making his home in beautiful Southern California, Vance provides general computer Q&A for users via his weekly column.
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 | Friday, February 05, 2010 |
| Does Microsoft consider you a lesser person if you still use MD-DOS and the command prompt? |
| By Vance Hunt |
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In previous versions of Windows, at the command prompt, I could use the deltree command to remove a folder, plus all files and subfolders therein. I can't get that to work in Windows 7. How do you easily delete an entire folder tree?
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To be fair, you couldn't actually use that command at the prompt in Windows XP, Vista, 2003, or 2008 either. If you're a long time Windows Veteran, you might be surprised what isn't available any more from the command prompt, but only because for many people, dropping to the command prompt is a rare activity.
The "new" command is actually an amendment to an existing command, the
RD or REMDIR commands.
Do a RD /? at the command prompt to see the full list
of switches, but a /S is what you're looking for
these days.
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I am looking for a utility that can quickly create "placeholder" files of any
specified size. Freeware preferred, and one that doesn't actually take the
time to fill the file with data. Know any?
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Believe it or not, you already have just such a utility. Open the
command prompt and enter in the following:
fsutil file createnew [file] [sizeinbytes]
example: fsutil file createnew c:\mytestfile.tmp 1073741824
That should quickly give you a 1 GB file.
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