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Remove very large folder on Windows

I have a very large folder containing 600000 files. I want to remove it as fast as possible. How do I do that?
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rmdir /s /q folder

doing it through windows explorer will take an age due to the estimation calculations it uses, the command prompt will be 'almost' instant in theory.
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Thanks a llot. This solved my problem.