It happens to everyone eventually. Your hard drive is suddenly full and you are left wondering where did all my free space go? Now you must begin the task of deleting old files and folders to reclaim space but where do you start? In the past I would suggest manually checking the sizes of all of your folders so you know where to begin the hunt but now there is a great utility called WinDirStat that does the work for you.  After inspecting a drive you are shown exactly how much data is in each folder, what file types are taking up the most space and even a visual representation of the files on your disk.

 

Now you know exactly where to target your cleanup effort.

WinDirStat Web site.

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Comments
Kevin
2 years ago
This is pretty brilliant. At first glance, it seems like a information overload, but there are three very powerful and complimentary ways of answering the same question - where is all the data on my drive?

The expandable node tree very quickly lets you navigate your hard drive if you know what you're looking for. The filetype browser works in conjunction with with the treemap to let you know what types of files occupy space on your drive, and quicky single out individual files that are the most bulky.

Kudos to the developer(s).
Charles
2 years ago
Wow! Sometimes it's hard to find a well-written article on the web! Thankyou
cromeshine
2 years ago
Yeah!
Thank you very much
really want to thank you
Mike
2 years ago
FYI, SpaceSniffer is another app that lets you do this...it's also free AND you can opt to not install it if you get the Zipped version!