Ever seen a single `explorer.exe` process claim 4.68GB of memory, without it being in a locked-up state?

I'm only deleting 77,000 files from a search query. What is this, babytown frolics?

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Okay, closer to 78,000 files. I may have been accidentally misleading as to the magnitude of the task.

Ooh, and it managed to peak at 5.4GB before that command finished and I cleared the cache by issuing another command. Now it's down to 3.1GB.

I have been to the very brink and returned!

Though, uh... most of the files I wanted to delete, I couldn't because of friggin' permissions issues. *bangs head on desk*

It went through a five-and-a-half-minute period of ~25% CPU and "Not Responding"... and then finally came out the other end, but it's still chewing on moving a large number of files, slowly growing, back to 5.16GB in the time I've spent writing this.

There's Got To Be An Easier Way!™

(Yeah, boot off a recovery thumb-drive and nuke the whole damn folder from orbit.)

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