WinDirStat graphical file size tool

[hoom]

So TIL that this program exists and is Awesome.
windirstat.info

Makes a treegraph of your files so you can find silly old spacehog files/folders to delete/relocate to other drives. (not my image)

I found 7Zip was stashing 75GB of Temp files that were filling up my 250GB C: SSD & not being cleared by Windows Disk Cleanup, a few other big Files/Folders that I should have moved away from my C: ages ago & prompted me to get rid of some other big Files/Folders that I'd forgotten about in other drives.

In similar vein I'd recently gone through my misc. downloads folders & found literally over 25GB of old Driver/program upgrade installers to get rid of (but failed to solve the lack of C: space).

 

[Davros]

I use treesize free which does a similar job
(also has a toutchscreen interface for tablet users)
https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/

Find space hogs - clean up hard disk space
Break down hard disk space usage right down to file level: Explorer-like overview shows the size of all subfolders.
Scan network shares and cloud drives.
Visualization of folder sizes via a colored bar in the background facilitates easy orientation.
TreeSize Free shows NTFS compression rates. Whole folder branches can easily be compressed via NTFS.
Access your disk space manager at any time: TreeSize Free can be started from the context menu of folders or drives.
Start TreeSize Free with administrator rights and scan files you cannot access without opening them. Data protection guaranteed.
Monitor free space on smartphones and mobile devices
TreeSize Free scans smartphones and mobile devices via MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) and WebDAV.
Quick overview over file information
The column view offers detailed information about files and folders: size, occupied disk space, number of files, last acces, owner etc.
Filter scan results according to different criteria and according to patterns you create. Patterns can be matched as wildcards, regular expressions, or whole name.
The filter preview shows the impact your patterns will have.
Switch between simple view and column view at any time and print your scan results.
Use the intuitive touch interface on touchscreen devices (Windows 8 and higher).
Small, fast, secure
TreeSize Free uses the Master File Table (MTF) for scans of local NTFS drives and thus guarantees ultra-fast scans.
The handy utility occupies minimal disk space and can be run from USB sticks without a hitch.
Use the U3 download to install TreeSize Free on U3 USB sticks and run it anywhere.

 

[Lightman]

I use Total Commander and with one tap of SPACE I know what size folders are, but it lacks this pretty boxy graphics from windirstat.
Often Windows DriverStore can take huge amounts of space. Recently one of my customers had low C drive space for no obvious reason. Turned out Windows folder took 75GB of 120GB C: . After quick scan I found 45GB of stored drivers for nVidia GPU in DriverStore and after cleaning them up with dedicated tool all space was reclaimed.

 

[Davros]

dedicated tool, for driverstore ?

 

[orangpelupa]

I use folder size from codeplex for the multi-touch support. The graph is nicer but it doesn't have the "short folder by size" list

 

[Lightman]

dedicated tool, for driverstore ?

Yes, as most files can be locked by OS. There is a tool the name of which I forgot that scans and unlocks access to all files there in a neat fashon. Just select all nvidia drivers and with one click force delete them.

 

[hoom]

The thing that bugs me is this is the sort of stuff that MS really should have built into Windows somewhere along the way.
Maybe not normal Windows Explorer but could be in the Admin Tools.

 

[Cyan]

thanks for the recommendation. Downloading it already.

I'd also wholeheartedly recommend FreeFileSync, it's amazing and saves me a LOT of time. I am studying computer science as of now and I take a pendrive with me to the place where I study and save new files in it from the work we make in class and there are always new files, files that I update.., and just in case I lose the pendrive, I prefer to save its content everyday for backup purposes.

I started using it 3 weeks ago and now FreeFileSync synchronises the files of my pendrive with the ones in a folder where I keep a backup in my laptop's harddrive. It's an amazing tool.

Additionally, another neat trick, if you are looking for alternatives to a program, say a video editor like Movie Maker, just go to http://www.alternativeto.net and search for Movie Maker and will find alternatives to it for you in a jiffy. It works with every single program, it's an amazing website.

 

[bdmosky]

Wow... I read that as Freesync and was really confused what that had to do with a pendrive.

 

[hoom]

So the 7zip options for Temp folder location totally doesn't work & Windows completely fails to see these as things that should be deleted