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[Trubbleguy]

Vista users are probably aware of the damn annoying S L O W Delete that slows down the whole pc when you delete, move or Copy.
this small prog will insert itself into system32 folder, and also the right click menu when you right click on a folder and offers Delete Folder Fast menu.
compile the purpose named vdel.ahk to vdel.exe and run it, when it detects the vdel.ahk it auto copies its exe self, to system32 and adds itself to the right mouse click menu for folders.

Comparisons:
45,716 dummy zip files using windows took 132 seconds to delete (dont you just love the way vista tells you how long its gonna take)
45,716 dummy zip files using vdel.exe took 16 seconds.

[Titan]

This explorer bug is supposed to be fixed in SP1 but it's great to see patches have already been made, and with ahk!
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[wrecklass]

Interesting, and the way it is written, amazingly dangerous for most users.

When I just tried running the script itself I got several message boxes for some reason. One said the program had been installed, although it had not because I hadn't compiled it yet. One told me to compile the script first and the last msgbox said the program was 'Done.' Not sure why it displayed all of the msgboxes at the same time, but something is wrong with the script.

Worse, when I compiled the script it asked if I wanted to Install it, as I expected it to. I said no and it then told me it was going to delete the folder it happened to be launched from, which happend to be my Desktop folder. Not a very good idea to have the program's default behavior to delete the folder where it is first launched from. An unsuspecting person might have accidentally hit the 'Yes' key and had a big headache on their hands.

[Trubbleguy]

thanks for pointing out the Compiled danger when run directly in a folder, it escaped my notice.

added check for vdel.exe existing
added check to make sure the folder it lives in cant be deleted using
if dir = %A_ScriptDir%
Exitapp
when it is run uncompiled no value goes to %1% , it cannot delete anything.
I did add a check for vdel.exe before adding to reg and system32 though.
I did actually make sure if it was run in ahk form it only wants to install itself in system32 and context menu (only if a compiled exe is present )
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[kasper]

how do i make it work?

I have created a txt file with the code, one with .ahk and one with .exe. That don´t work. Am i doing something wrong?

[Trubbleguy]

run the compiled exe and allow it to set itself with right click menu
then right click any folder you want to delete and select it from the menu