Deleting Files and (sub)folders - how to

Hi,
Easy question. Easy there a vbscript to delete all files and (sub)folders, empty or not. Important, here is that the parent folder must NOT be deleted, only it´s contents. (important: this folder is located on a mapped share \\servername\foldername\)
please help

Hi,
' Delete All Subfolders and Files in a Folder
Const DeleteReadOnly = TRUE
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
objFSO.DeleteFile("C:\FSO\*"), DeleteReadOnly
objFSO.DeleteFolder("C:\FSO\*"),DeleteReadOnly
Save the above code in test file with .vbs file extension. modify "C:\FSO" to your folder.
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