You can't use RemoveDirectory, because it only works on empty directories/folders. But you CAN use a Shell function for this, the ubiquitous SHFileOperation :
SHFILEOPSTRUCT sh; sh.hwnd = GetSafeHwnd(); sh.wFunc = FO_DELETE; sh.pFrom = "c:\\test\0"; sh.pTo = NULL; sh.fFlags = FOF_NOCONFIRMATION | FOF_SILENT; sh.hNameMappings = 0; sh.lpszProgressTitle = NULL; SHFileOperation (&sh);
That code will softly and silently remove an entire tree, starting from (and including) c:\test
NOTE : this method can fail because a process has a folder or subfolder as its current directory.
This comes courtesy of Ed Eichman, who wrote to tell me about a
problem he had with removing a folder tree:
I had a "remove dir" function that removed all files in the dir,
and then deleted the dir itself. I used CFileFind to get and delete
the files, and then called _rmdir WITHOUT FIRST CALLING
CFileFind.Close ()! Adding the Close fixed my problem.