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at April 16, 2009 12:21 by ericmorin21
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Get-ChildItem -Path . -Include Thumbs.db -Recurse -Name -Force | Remove-Item -Force #-WhatIf
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Powershell 1.0's Remove-Item recursion "doesn't work" according to the help, so you must find all instances with Get_ChildItem then pass the results to Remove-Item.  Use th ecommented -"WhatIf" argument to determine what will be deleted before executing for real.









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Use Powershell to remove all instances of thumbs.db in current tree









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Windows PowerShell