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PowerShell - fast remove a directory with 10,000+ files

I am sick of File Explorer's super slow deletion speed, so I tried to write a PowerShell script to make deletion faster, and while it does its job, its speed isn't as high as what I intended it to be. ...
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Search files content fast in powershell

I need to search a large repository of files for a specific resource, and return it only if it is used or not. It is working as expected, but it is very time consuming. To search for 50 resource ...
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Normalize video filenames and move files to destination directory

I have written a powershell script that will scan a directory for any *mkv, *.mp4, *.avi ...
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Getting NTFS permissions of all shared folders on the local machine

How can I improve the speed of the script? ...
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Powershell search millions of files as fast as possible

I once asked a similar question but in C#. Now I have the same problem in powershell.. What is the fastest way, to search files newer than 15 minutes, in a file system with more than 1 million files? ...
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A PowerShell script like one-way rsync but worse

This PowerShell script works a bit like a one-way rsync; it's good enough for my Surface RT needs, anyway. However, seeing as this is my first PS script, and I was ...
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