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Utility to show size of directories in size order to see which are taking up most space.

I have a windows XP machine with a small (10GB) hard drive which my daughter uses for games.

The thing is now so clogged up there is about 500MB free.

I have uninstalled all I can, and the drive is compressed, but there is still only this tiny amount free.

Is there a utility I can download that will show me the hard drive visually and highlight which directories have the most data in ? - I remember XTree Gold back in the DOS days used to be able to do this and it was dead useful.

Any ideas welcome.

Thanks
Matt

rindi

You can use a file manager, like freecommander (which as the name suggests is free).

http://www.freecommander.com/

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SheharyaarSaahil

TreeSize can tell you about the space used by files and folders
http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml

milkmon123

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Thanks guys.

Another good one I have since found is WinDirStat

Thanks all

Matt

Lee W, MVP

Diruse is the only accurate one I know of - TreeSize is NOT accurate. By accurate I mean it lists sizes of EVERYTHING regardless of permissions. TreeSize cannot include the sizes of files that the logged in user does not have access to. It's not graphical, but it works great and is flexible - and it's available from Microsoft (I believe as part of the 2000 Support Tools - but it runs just fine on XP.