Windows and directories that cannot be (easily) deleted

If a directory contains nodes whose full pathname is greater than around 255 characters then Windows has tremendous difficulty deleting such a directory. But luckily, there is an easy way out. The 7-Zip command comes with an additional executable, 7zFM.exe which is the 7-ZIP File Manager. I recommend you put an icon for this on your desktop. It works a bit like a file explorer with one significant difference. If you click on a directory and enter shift-delete then it will delete that directory even if other commands fail due to the 255 problem.