[Karunamon]

It's incredibly basic computer knowledge that a modern day OS is so badly designed that it requires the user to drop into the command line to delete large folders efficiently because otherwise, it spends most of its time telling you how long it will take to tell you how long it will take?

That's one hell of an indictment of Windows!

[problems]

There's some truth to it though - the Windows Explorer file operations are flaky as hell.

I was just trying to copy files between an old system drive and a new one but I kept getting infinite recursion issues with the "Documents and Settings" (which is linked to Users) directory, permission issues, etc. Even as the SYSTEM user. I wound up having to learn a little robocopy for it.

[E6300]

Yeah, since Windows Vista/7, when Documents and Settings was moved to Users, the system creates new user directories with a bunch of symbolic links/junctions that don't seem to be properly created and always cause issues when copying the directory to another place or deleting the directory. I always get this problem when moving my profile directory out of the system partition.

Incidentally, it's amazing that Windows still doesn't let you specify a custom location to create the profile directory of a new user.