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deleting files

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I wrote a program to tidy up my hard disk. I run it as administrator.
It tells me there are a fair number of junk files I cannot delete. I
have a utility, presumably written in C, that much more rapidly scans
my drive for junk and manages to wipe out much of the junk I could
not.

I curious if anyone has experimented and could tell me:

1. why in the C utility is so much faster than my utility. My code is
basically just a bunch of File.list() with filters. What Java doing to
dither?

2. What is the utility doing to let it kill more files?
-- 
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
~ Farmer's Almanac
It is breathtaking how a misplaced comma in a computer program can
shred megabytes of data in seconds.

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deleting files Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-01-28 11:00 -0800
  Re: deleting files Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-01-28 16:53 -0500
  Re: deleting files Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-01-28 18:05 -0400

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