Delete ’97 and subsequent Delete XP has been one of the popular freebies available for download from our products site: EasyTools.COM.
Description: Delete XP is for deleting files from Command Prompt in Windows (Windows 9x and Windows NT 4.0/2000/XP). Unlike, the standard “DEL” command which only deletes the file, Delete XP deletes the files and sends them to the recycle bin. In our opinion, this is what DEL command in the command prompt of Windows should have been!.
Over the years, the usage (familiarity and the need) of command prompt has certainly dimished. The only folks who uses it are the “IT Pros” and Me!. Anyways, even now I get once in a month or so, an email from some user across the world, who has found the tool on the Internet and finds it useful. He/She writes to me with a bug/feature (I leave which is more to your imagination) requests. Today, I have finally made the source code available from here.
This was one of my favourite Win32 Console applications that I wrote, since I took enough care in handling correctly the various command-line parameters (and their combinations) – which like those of you who have programmed on good ol’ C++ know, was by itself a daunting task.