How to Force Delete a File That Can't Be Deleted on Windows 10 and Windows 11

If you attempt to delete the current directory, the following error message appears: The process can't access the file because it is being used by another process.

This doesn't delete files, like rm -rf does, and it also returns a non-zero value when the directory doesn't exist, so rd /s /q foo && echo "yay" will fail if directory "foo" doesn't exist.

您可以使用CMD刪除資料夾。 這是一個強制刪除資料夾的可靠方法，在CMD視窗，輸入「rmdir /s /q 資料夾路徑」就可以強制刪除資料夾了。 此外，您還可以嘗試「Shift」+「Delete」鍵、強制關閉檔案後刪除、安全模式下刪除等方法。

We discussed two methods: using the DEL command to delete files and the RMDIR command to delete folders. Additionally, we provided a step-by-step guide on how to delete folders and subfolders using Command Prompt.

In this note i will show how to force the rmdir command to delete folders and their contents recursively without throwing any errors like “ The directory is not empty ” or “ Access is denied “.