January 14, 2008...5:42 pm
display folder-size in WindowsXP
If theres one thing that pisses me off, is to find that my hard-drive is getting full and I really don’t know “what happened” – besides the fact that I download too much and forget where and what I downloaded.
So here, I found a solution, how to display your folder size in Windows XP with a tool: Folder Size for Windows 2.4
1. download the file Folder Size for Windows 2.4 from sourceforge (right-click, save-as)
2. to verify if your PC is 32–bit or 64–bit, do the following:
2a) go to command prompt: start-menu >> Run >> type ‘cmd’
2b) when command prompt opens, type: set and look for a line like the attached:
If you find anything that looks like X86….you’ve got a 32–bit. Besides, 64–bit computers are quite rare to find.
3. Install the downloaded file:
– double click to RUN the downloaded file
– click ‘next’
– you can select any of the other options…i selected ‘complete’
– lastly, click ‘finish’
4) Lastly, open your C-drive or any drive that contains folders, right click on the column headers and select folder-size, like in the pic below:
Note that there are many other options that could be displayed by right-clicking on the colum-headers.
Enjoy!
3 Comments
January 15, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Give also a try to my tiny utility Dirlot - http://soft.km.ua/soft/dirlot/index.en.html . It is interactively explorable folder size report. It builds a diagram where it shows bigger files and folders in red and lesser one in green visualazing their relative size by length of corresponding strip. Just look at the images on the page - you will got the idea. This way it becomes much easier to define where the most space resides.
February 8, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Display folder-size in Windows OS’s
If you are an administrator like I am then you will appreciate this little tool that is posted on the n a i j a t e c h t a l k blog.
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June 25, 2008 at 3:06 pm
A very simple download that gives some invaluable information in the right place.
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