How can I speed up the deleting of very large directories on XP?

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Published on 2009-09-23T15:09:39Z Indexed on 2010/05/12 18:05 UTC
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I regularly check out incredibly huge directories onto my XP machine. When it comes down to deleting and finally trashing them, it takes forever. Is there any way to speed this process up?

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