Deleting Sharepoint Sites taking too much time

Question

I am trying to delete few sites that have loads of sub-sites but its taking way too much time,

I tried to delete sites using "Content Structure" & tried to use this tool as well,

Tool for deleting sites

both option do work , but take too much time, is there alternative or quickest way of doing it.

Cheers

Answer 1

You can use the stsadm deletesite option or do it within central administration for faster site collection removal. Do you have access to either of those?

Answer 2

The faster method to delete site is through STSADM for MOSS 2007 and SharePoint 2010 Management Shell for SharePoint 2010.