Monday, August 23, 2010

Folder sizes and disk space usage in windows 7 (Vista).

Sometimes you want to know what is eating up space on your drives. In the past I've utilized "Folder Size" to accomplish this task. It would list folder sizes as a separate column within Explorer. It was easy to control the service on the fly through a batch file. Well Windows Vista / 7 came along and ruined my fun. Microsoft has changed how developers can interface with explorer, so I can no longer utilize Folder Size. That's not cool. So here are a few free alternatives we can use to accomplish folder sizing / disk space usage. Maybe SP1 will fix this issue.

1.  Scanner (Freeware)


Download: http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/ 

2. Folder Size (Freeware)


Download: http://www.mindgems.com/products/Folder-Size/Folder-Size.html

3.  SequoiaView (Freeware)



About: http://w3.win.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/onderzoek_informatica/visualization/sequoiaview/
Download: http://w3.win.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/onderzoek_informatica/visualization/sequoiaview/download_sequoiaview/

UPDATE:

TreeSize (Freeware)

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/treesize.html

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