Miracles, but if you're really short on space, you might discover that odd extra GB you never thought you could
Windows XP, and it's still very practical and useful on the more recent versions. I must admit I have been using it quite often ever since Windirstat is a very useful tool for Windows people. Moreover, you can specify the depth of search, the cleanup policy, and more. If you don't like the treemap, you can remove Then, in the settings menu, youĬan make additional changes and tweaks to the tool's behavior. And you can always rescan to get changes.Ĭleanup might be your next step, but I would be prudent, and make sure there's a proper backup in place, in case you botch something. For example, in the scenario below, you can see that various application libraries takeĦ.2GB, while system files take 1.6GB, with fonts in the respectable third place. Then, once the scan is complete, you also get a lovely color map, showing you the distribution of your data, A very good start for some home cleaning. Will learn how much space your data takes, when it was last changed, the number of items, subdirectories, and Windirstat display information based on size, although you can use other available categories for that. While you're waiting,Īs a sort of geeky entertainment, it will display little Pacman thingies running left and right. Windirstat can take a while to run, especially if you have slow disks with lots of data. Then, once you are somewhat more comfortable using the tool, you can expand elsewhere. Might want to consider being slightly conservative at first, to shorten the scan time and reduce the load.
Now, Windirstat can traverse network paths, too, so if you have remote filesystems in use, you On every launch, you will be asked whether you want to examine all your drives or a Anyhow, this same behavior and fun is also available for Windows people.
This software is the Windows implementation of Kdirstat, a Linux utility that can examine your storage devicesĪnd display useful statistics, including largest directories and files, sort usage by file types, show you a It's called Windirstat, and it does just that. On Windows, you scratch your head and wonder. Linux, you use df and du, and William is thy uncle.
If you want to know what files or folders take the most space on your local disk, what do you do? Easy.