quickest way to perform a mass deletion of files (Windows 11 Pro 22h2)

whenever more than one file is deleted, such as deleting entire directories that are filled with files, it can take an inordinate amount of time before the process finishes in windows, especially when large amounts of large files are involved. this was fine under older OS's when theamount of files was only a couple of hundred Mb's. but in today world there are times when a directory can sometimes have several hundred Gb's worth of files. it can take a while for windows to finish the deletion process. For what ever reason, windows decides to scan each files that is going to be deleted. this takes time to process, even on a SSD. since the advent of the 'search before deletion' (maybe since winXP?) i have dropped to the DOS (CMD) prompt to perform mass deletions of this nature. it allowed the file system to skip this file seeking habit that windows does. but on windows 11 even when performed from the cmd prompt, it seems to take uite a while to finish.

So, what is the quickest way to perform mass file deletions in windows? is there anything that will delete directories quickly regardless of content like the old MS-DOS command deltree?

methods i know of

Windows (GUI)

Shift+Del (keys) (after selecting directories and files for deletion)

(right click) shift+ (select) delete

CMD (DOS Prompt)

rmdir [path:\directory] /s /q

del [path:\directory\*.*] /f /s /q

in the most current scenario the directory to be deleted contains files totaling 732Gb+