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README.md

fdelete

Ever find yourself trying to delete a file and for whatever reason you are not allowed too? you can use fdelete.exe to remove whatever file/directory you want now. This project inherits VDM and uses GDRV by default but you can use whatever method of physical read/write you want. This must be ran as admin as it loads a driver (GDRV).

usage

usage: [OPTION] [File Path/Directory Path]
        --file, delete a specific file...
        --dir, delete an entire directory...

example

Here we are cleaning out stuff that isnt important and takes up alot of space (1GB~).

fdelete.exe --file C:\Windows\System32\ntoskrnl.exe
    delete \??\C:\Windows\System32\ntoskrnl.exe result: 1
fdelete.exe --dir C:\Windows\System32\
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\aadcloudap.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\aadjcsp.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\aadtb.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\aadWamExtension.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\AarSvc.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\AboutSettingsHandlers.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\AboveLockAppHost.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\accessibilitycpl.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\accountaccessor.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\AccountsRt.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\AcGenral.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\AcLayers.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\acledit.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\aclui.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\acmigration.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\ACPBackgroundManagerPolicy.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\acppage.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\acproxy.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\AcSpecfc.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\ActionCenter.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\ActionCenterCPL.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\ActionQueue.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\ActivationClient.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\ActivationManager.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\activeds.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\activeds.tlb
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\ActiveHours.png
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\ActiveSyncCsp.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\ActiveSyncProvider.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\actxprxy.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\AcWinRT.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\AcXtrnal.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\AdaptiveCards.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\AddressParser.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\adhapi.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\adhsvc.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\AdmTmpl.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\adprovider.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\adrclient.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\adsldp.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\adsldpc.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\adsmsext.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\adsnt.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\adtschema.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\AdvancedEmojiDS.dll
    deleted \??\C:\Windows\System32\AdvancedInstallers\cmiv2.dll
    
    // ..... etc etc .....