How to fast delete many files

Question

I have a folder in Windows Server with subfolders and ≈50000 files. When I click the right mouse button and choose delete (or shift+delete) – all files are deleted in 10-20 seco

Answer 1

Since the question is actually about deleting network shared folders and it's stated that the explorer based delete is much faster than the C# internal delete mechanism, it might help to just invoke a windows shell based delete.

ProcessStartInfo Info = new ProcessStartInfo(); 
Info.Arguments = "/C rd /s /q \"\""; 
Info.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden; 
Info.CreateNoWindow = true; 
Info.FileName = "cmd.exe"; 
Process.Start(Info);

Ofcourse, you have to replace .

However, I don't have the infrastructure and files available to test the performance myself right now.