I got 2 terabytes and 5 years worth of mess on my 3 hard drives and decided to do some clean-up.
Problem is, my both hard drives have survived over uncountable windows reinstallations, attempts to start over "organized", duplicate installations of same program, etc... and therefore, it's one helluva mess.
While everyday-essential stuff is more or less reachable, there's folders and files that need -- er -- archaeological approach.
Like misnamed big files, too well hidden pr0n ::) suspicious & LARGE files without extension, billion "this time I will keep it clean"/"save it wherever, erase later"-kind of download folders, impartial download files from numerous P2P programs I've had in the past, all kind of art, music and game projects that are forgotten or lost and covered with spider webs... and so on.
What I want to do is complete overview what's on my hard disks, is there some files where they don't belong & where they are, etc.
So basically, a program that gives me sizes of folders, finds files by size (under/over some size limit), finds all that hidden or forgot junk and so on.
Windows 7... doesn't really come with any tool to do this. Even search function doesn't start anymore for me :P
I tried googling, but found only something named "simpli-file statistics" which doesn't even install since it fails to detect .NET framework even AFTER I installed both old 1.1 and that new beta. Maybe it's some kind of Vista incompatibility. So,
Does anyone know a powerful, Windows 7 (or Vista, same) -compatible tool to solve my mess?
try webattack.com, you might find what you need there.
Total Commander. It rules!
* Webattack didn't have anything useful. Thanks anyway
* Total Commander? Tried a bit. Despite windows-look, it's still pretty much old-good-loved-Norton commander. I have it installed on my work computer but never found excuse to actually use it... yet.
I remember back in 1996, I totally refused to go with Windows 95 because I was able to navigate any folder DIRECTORY with Norton Commander in 2 seconds, using keyboard, or do any other file function, from copying to renaming to... I still remember most of the keys.
Mouse felt so... slow and useless. And when TC came, Windows-look on Total Commander felt so... crappy.
But yeah, it's awesome. With good search function and directory info, it might do the trick, thanks.
Oh, dude, you want WinDirStat
http://windirstat.info/
It gives you a visual overview of everything and you can easily find out what's hogging space.
(http://windirstat.info/images/windirstat.jpg)
And free!
I use a small little programme called TreeSizeFree (http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/) which is pretty quick and very minimal.
But after seeing that screenshot of WinDirStat I think I'll be switching, TreeSizeFree only lists folders and doesn't give you any idea of the files they contain.
So thanks for that Vince :D
Windirstat helped alot, thanks... Really "nice" to find useless 150GB folder full of junk just after you've erased load of more important things just to free up space :P
I'm too lazy to write DVDs anyway ::) And even if I do, they end up stuck somewhere between bookshelf and wall on the floor, to be found on some spring cleaning year after
This reminded me of Scanner (http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/), which seems to work on Windows 7, too, although I recall having some problems with it on XP... Might recall wrong anyway, or have used an ancient version :P