It's hard to believe how much hard drive space we use up these days. If you're somebody who has a lot of video and or audio files, you can find your drive filling up fairly quickly. Cleaning up to make more room can be annoying and time consuming when done manually.
WinDirStat is a cute, simple and free application that analyzes how much disk space files are taking up. Simply download it
here and follow the simple installation instructions.
To run it, select a drive and let it scan. The scan is fun and has little pac man guys darting across the screen as they analyze your data. There really isn't much on this computer so the scan only took a few seconds
Look at that! Free AND shiny! You can drill down and see more details about what's taking up space in your files, by clicking on individual files.
Directory Report is another tool to use
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It looks just like the MS-Explorer but always shows the folder size
I use Windirstat a lot to free up space on our production servers that can fill up quickly. It's good at identifying those sneaky sub-directories several levels down that have some old useless install binaries or cache that can be purged.
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