diff --git a/build.cmd b/build.cmd
index aeb4645..4f6a54c 100644
--- a/build.cmd
+++ b/build.cmd
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 rem This bat file minifies all js and css and creates a dist folder with everything in it
 
+rmdir "dist" /S /Q
+mkdir dist
+
 node node_modules\minifyfromhtml\minifyfromhtml.js --js=dist\myapp.js --css=dist\myapp.css < index.html
 
 copy /Y index.production.html dist\index.html
diff --git a/dist/empty b/dist/empty
deleted file mode 100644
index 1f3e517..0000000
--- a/dist/empty
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-this file is intentionally left blank