Re: I'm looking for a free utility

Wow! Thanks for the blast from the past! XtreeGold was one of my fav DOS
utilities. I often wondered what happened to those old utilities...

BUT HOWEVER THE THING IS that won't work for me. I need something that scans
the entire hard drive and shows me at a glance which folders are taking up
the most space. As I said, I have 146gb on a drive and most of it is full
but I can't tell where the space is being taken.

Anyone else have any suggestions?

Bikini Browser
Sam Juan Puerto Rico



"rod" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
>
> perhaps $29.95
> free 30 day evaluation
> Ztree win
> http://www.ztree.com/html/ztreewin.htm
>
>
> "Bikini Browser" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Hi yall!
>>
>> I'm looking for a free utility that will show me at a quick glance which
>> folders are taking up most of the room on my hard drive.
>>
>> I have a 146gb hard drive almost full and I can't tell for the life of me
>> what is taking up so much space.
>>
>> Can anyone recommend something that works for both Vista and XP?
>>
>> Please advise
>>
>> Bikini Browser
>>
>>
>>
>
>

>> "Bikini Browser" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> Hi yall!
>>>
>>> I'm looking for a free utility that will show me at a quick glance which
>>> folders are taking up most of the room on my hard drive.
>>>
>>> I have a 146gb hard drive almost full and I can't tell for the life of
>>> me
>>> what is taking up so much space.
>>>
>>> Can anyone recommend something that works for both Vista and XP?
>>>
>>> Please advise
>>>
>>> Bikini Browser

TreeSize Free?
http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml

Folders Report from NirSoft. Can also save the list to a file.

http://www.nirsoft.net/


"Bikini Browser" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Wow! Thanks for the blast from the past! XtreeGold was one of my fav DOS
> utilities. I often wondered what happened to those old utilities...
>
> BUT HOWEVER THE THING IS that won't work for me. I need something that
> scans the entire hard drive and shows me at a glance which folders are
> taking up the most space. As I said, I have 146gb on a drive and most of
> it is full but I can't tell where the space is being taken.
>
> Anyone else have any suggestions?
>
> Bikini Browser
> Sam Juan Puerto Rico
>
>
>
> "rod" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>>
>>
>> perhaps $29.95
>> free 30 day evaluation
>> Ztree win
>> http://www.ztree.com/html/ztreewin.htm
>>
>>
>> "Bikini Browser" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> Hi yall!
>>>
>>> I'm looking for a free utility that will show me at a quick glance which
>>> folders are taking up most of the room on my hard drive.
>>>
>>> I have a 146gb hard drive almost full and I can't tell for the life of
>>> me
>>> what is taking up so much space.
>>>
>>> Can anyone recommend something that works for both Vista and XP?
>>>
>>> Please advise
>>>
>>> Bikini Browser
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

"Bill in Co." <> wrote in message
news:...
>>> "Bikini Browser" <> wrote in message
>>> news:...
>>>> Hi yall!
>>>>
>>>> I'm looking for a free utility that will show me at a quick glance
>>>> which
>>>> folders are taking up most of the room on my hard drive.
>>>>
>>>> I have a 146gb hard drive almost full and I can't tell for the life of
>>>> me
>>>> what is taking up so much space.
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone recommend something that works for both Vista and XP?
>>>>
>>>> Please advise
>>>>
>>>> Bikini Browser
>
> TreeSize Free?
> http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml

I have to strongly endorse this recommendation.
TreeSize is a fantastic and supremely useful application.

"Bikini Browser" wrote:

> Wow! Thanks for the blast from the past! XtreeGold was one of my fav DOS
> utilities. I often wondered what happened to those old utilities...
>
> BUT HOWEVER THE THING IS that won't work for me. I need something that scans
> the entire hard drive and shows me at a glance which folders are taking up
> the most space. As I said, I have 146gb on a drive and most of it is full
> but I can't tell where the space is being taken.
>
> Anyone else have any suggestions?
>
> Bikini Browser
> Sam Juan Puerto Rico
>
>
Start, Search, For Files or Folders, Search all Folders, do a search under
"What size is it?" and specify a size until you find the large files or
folders that are taking up so much space. Don't have to download or pay for
it; it's already included in Windows.
>
> "rod" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> >
> >
> > perhaps $29.95
> > free 30 day evaluation
> > Ztree win
> > http://www.ztree.com/html/ztreewin.htm
> >
> >
> > "Bikini Browser" <> wrote in message
> > news:...
> >> Hi yall!
> >>
> >> I'm looking for a free utility that will show me at a quick glance which
> >> folders are taking up most of the room on my hard drive.
> >>
> >> I have a 146gb hard drive almost full and I can't tell for the life of me
> >> what is taking up so much space.
> >>
> >> Can anyone recommend something that works for both Vista and XP?
> >>
> >> Please advise
> >>
> >> Bikini Browser
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>

SequoiaView - it's not only effective, it makes this sort of thing almost
fun!
(and it works in just about every version of Windows)
http://w3.win.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/on.../sequoiaview//


--
Noel Paton (MVP 2002-2006)
(CrashFixPC)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.crashfixpc.co.uk
"Bikini Browser" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Wow! Thanks for the blast from the past! XtreeGold was one of my fav DOS
> utilities. I often wondered what happened to those old utilities...
>
> BUT HOWEVER THE THING IS that won't work for me. I need something that
> scans the entire hard drive and shows me at a glance which folders are
> taking up the most space. As I said, I have 146gb on a drive and most of
> it is full but I can't tell where the space is being taken.
>
> Anyone else have any suggestions?
>
> Bikini Browser
> Sam Juan Puerto Rico
>
>
>
> "rod" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>>
>>
>> perhaps $29.95
>> free 30 day evaluation
>> Ztree win
>> http://www.ztree.com/html/ztreewin.htm
>>
>>
>> "Bikini Browser" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> Hi yall!
>>>
>>> I'm looking for a free utility that will show me at a quick glance which
>>> folders are taking up most of the room on my hard drive.
>>>
>>> I have a 146gb hard drive almost full and I can't tell for the life of
>>> me
>>> what is taking up so much space.
>>>
>>> Can anyone recommend something that works for both Vista and XP?
>>>
>>> Please advise
>>>
>>> Bikini Browser
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

WinDirStat or SequoiaView.

The first is at http://windirstat.sourceforge.net/

They do a very nice graphical display of files as rectangles whose area is
proportional to their size. Easy to spot big files.

I'm not sure about SequoiaView in Vista 64, but I'm using WinDirStat here
with no problems.

I thought I had a shortcut to SequoiaView, but I can't find it, so I
suggest Googling.

On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:00:44 -0400, Bikini Browser wrote:

> Wow! Thanks for the blast from the past! XtreeGold was one of my fav DOS
> utilities. I often wondered what happened to those old utilities...
>
> BUT HOWEVER THE THING IS that won't work for me. I need something that scans
> the entire hard drive and shows me at a glance which folders are taking up
> the most space. As I said, I have 146gb on a drive and most of it is full
> but I can't tell where the space is being taken.
>
> Anyone else have any suggestions?
>
> Bikini Browser
> Sam Juan Puerto Rico
>
>
>
> "rod" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>>
>>
>> perhaps $29.95
>> free 30 day evaluation
>> Ztree win
>> http://www.ztree.com/html/ztreewin.htm
>>
>>
>> "Bikini Browser" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> Hi yall!
>>>
>>> I'm looking for a free utility that will show me at a quick glance which
>>> folders are taking up most of the room on my hard drive.
>>>
>>> I have a 146gb hard drive almost full and I can't tell for the life of me
>>> what is taking up so much space.
>>>
>>> Can anyone recommend something that works for both Vista and XP?
>>>
>>> Please advise
>>>
>>> Bikini Browser
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>


--
Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom

Noel Paton wrote:
> SequoiaView - it's not only effective, it makes this sort of thing almost
> fun!
> (and it works in just about every version of Windows)
> http://w3.win.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/on.../sequoiaview//
>
>
I'll second that. SequoiaView is a great free program for finding your
big files (and small ones, too, if you look closely).

Bill