Every couple weeks I end up wondering where all the space on my hard drive is and usually track it down to a Windows folder that seems way too large (5 gigs), and a profile that comes in at over 20 gigs. The problem is that Windows makes it incredibly difficult to track down what is taking up the most space, FolderSize for Windows [found via Darrell Norton] is a nice little utility that makes it easy to see how large each folder is so you can quickly track down what is taking up all that space.
-James
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Wow! This was helpful, indeed!
A similar program called Overdisk users.forthnet.gr/…/overdisk.html has a very nice graphical representation of disk usage.
Win Dir Stat _b
http://windirstat.sourceforge.net/
Nothing beats scanner: http://www.steffengerlach.de/…/freeware
Explorer integration isn’t that useful. It still takes many clicks to find out where the space has gone. You should check out sequoiaview. http://www.win.tue.nl/…/sequoiaview
I use JDiskReport (http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/index.html), which makes nice drill-down-able pie charts, and is free.
And then there’s du under Cygwin…
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