Find where your disk space has gone

sra

There was a question a few weeks ago about finding what was taking up space on your computer.

Just found this.

Unlike some of the others that was mentioned, it's free and you don't have to install it (unless you want to) I was really surprised at what was taking up a lot of space

Just download the WinDirStat 1.1.2 Executables (Unicode), unzip it, and click windirstat.exe (or setup.exe if you want to install).

It shows you a page like this where you can click on an area and find out what it is

You can also click options / show free space to show you what you have left

gizmoleeds

Are those pictures at the bottom diagrams of your disk space?

I might get this just to look at the funny pictures - thanks!

sra

gizmoleeds wrote:

Are those pictures at the bottom diagrams of your disk space?

I might get this just to look at the funny pictures - thanks!

Yes

Looks really cool doesn't it!


Nice of Apple to leave 3 copies of it's installer files for itunes and Quicktime in my Downloaded Installations folder (taking up 192 MB) from the various versions I've installed over the last few months

catch22

How does one know what is safe to delete? That's the problem.

gizmoleeds

System Volume Information is HUGE.

Thanks for a really useful prog - deleted a couple of large files I don't need already.

catch22 - files in the Windows, Winnt, System Volume Information or Program Files folders are generally not advisable to delete (except your interent cache, but as I use opera I've forgotten how to do this with IE). Basically, if unsure, only delete files in folders you have made (or My Documents).

Look for big files in folders you download stuff to (you may find programs you downloaded years ago still there).

Curry_Queen

sra wrote:

Just download the WinDirStat 1.1.2 Executables (Ansi), unzip it, and click windirstat.exe (or setup.exe) if you want to install.

That version is for Windows 95, 98 and ME

For Windows NT 4.0, 2000, XP, 2003 it's at WinDirStat 1.1.2 Executables (Unicode)

gizmoleeds

Curry_Queen wrote:

That version is for Windows 95, 98 and ME

For Windows NT 4.0, 2000, XP, 2003 it's at WinDirStat 1.1.2 Executables (Ansi)

What you on about - I got XP and the original link worked fine.

If you press F7 it will "show unknown" - I have 500mb of unknown on my C drive alone (I have 7 partitions) - what the hell is that???

sra

Curry_Queen wrote:

That version is for Windows 95, 98 and ME

For Windows NT 4.0, 2000, XP, 2003 it's at WinDirStat 1.1.2 Executables (Unicode)

Apologies

I downloaded one and linked to the other

Fixed the original post

Curry_Queen

sra wrote:

Apologies

I downloaded one and linked to the other

Fixed the original post

Ahhhh LOL! and I made exactly the same mistake when I was writing that post but managed to edit it in time before anyone noticed :rotfl:

I didn't think it was like you to make such a mistake

Jay-Jay_4

I'd love to do this but when I ran something similar on my PC it turned out that I had deleted things that I needed. I still get messages telling me that programmes cannot run/won't run properly as I don't have XYZ

Is there a way of getting rid of this junk when you haven't got a clue what you're doing?

gizmoleeds

Right click on each of your hard drives, go to Properties and choose Disk Cleanup (button near the pie-chart). That won't delete anything you need.