Windows 7 largest folders

So, there is no tool which can integrate a folder size column in windows explorer in windows 7 and vista, but still there are some other alternatives to find out large sized folder on your computer hard drive. Today we will tell you about another free tool which can easily help to see the folders size in windows, read on further to know more. This tool is also called Folder Size which will find and display all file and folder sizes, it will display folder name, folder size, size in percentage, files count, subfolders count, creation time and modification time.

This application will show a very neat report which can be sorted in order to identify the largest folders and the largest files. You can easily figure out which files or folders have filled up your dive space as Folder Size will also scan the sizes of all the subfolders.

The application can scan your entire hard drive in minutes due to its optimized scan algorithms. Download Folder Size.

Well seems it gonna take sometime to get used to this tool once after using SourceForge foldersize for XP! All the best developers and troublefixers! This is hands-down the most intuitive and easiest to use and view. Thanks so much for posting this! Thank you very much. In the search box on the taskbar, type settings, then choose it from the list of results. Change Search Options Click the Organize button on the toolbar, and then click Folder and search options.

After a search, click Search Tools on the toolbar, and then click Search Options. Click the Search tab. Select the What to search option you want. Home » Linux. Everything on the Mac works exactly as I would want it to - it took about a month to get used to it. Of course I'm an old Unix hack, so that helped to dig into its innards.

I should also add, when it comes to technical support, I have never found a company in any sector that can beat Apple. It is definitely worth the small fee for the AppleCare support package. I too used Brio's Foldersize on all my XP machines I skipped over Vista and now I am running windows 7 and boy is it pretty looking Windows 7 is more broke than ever for us power users and admins!

This foldersize issue and window explorer not remembering window position is totally ridiculous! I have just about had it with MS. I have recently purchased one Mac; looks like it's time to consider a full about-face from windozes to Mac. Not sure if this will help the lot of you, but I find JDiskReport to be exactly what I'm looking for. It's free, it doesn't require installing if you simply use the jdiskreport.

Otherwise you can simply install the app and run it at any time. It works for network shares as well. It's a very handy tool. I used to use TreeSizePro a long, long time ago, but this is it's equal and it's free to boot. ToothFaerie do you expect people to take your comments too seriously with that handle?

Your response, only the first paragraph I quoted, was as insulting as it was childish, both in epic proportions. One sentence stating that you have a name that makes people not take you seriously, and you respond with several paragraphs that range from comparing Carboni's name to a genital disorder to calling him a child to calling him stupid.

I can't help but think someone here is just a tad oversensitive The ironic thing is that Carboni agreed with most of your post. I've installed Win7's to 2 of my PC's yesterday one x32 and other x64 , even if only for 3 days to test this stuff out before activation kicks in.

Except for one thing, when I right click on a folder, every option is grayed out except for FileMenu Tools. FileMenu Tools wasn't installed on one of them and it was still grayed out. I have WinXP right now and had no interest in using Vista.

Although I fixed people's PC's who had it. I have been on the fence about Win7, only 2 reasons though. I use both many times a day. Well 3, moving and deleting and setting up partitions correctly is not fun new 2TB hd on way, but still a big pain. ClassicShell really doesn't help in the FolderSize department don't see size like in picture above , however the other things are kind of nice.

Even though when I right click using ExplorerXP, things are grayed out except for FileMenu Tools so I might just go with this combo but only been testing tonight. But I'll have to reinstall Win7 on both machines at least another times to fully test to make sure I want to make the switch.

Thank you enigmafyv. I downloaded and installed JDiskReport and was looking at a listing of one of my drives in about 5 minutes. Works a treat. Here's a link you may find helpful. I think I will use this solution. If somebody works to set up the shell that size folder used in win xp please write it here. I wrote a mail to Bill Gates I think he will like this function too.

Interestingly enough, Tree Size Professional works very well on Window 7 and provides folder sizes within its interface. What's with this silly "pillow view" that seems to be so common amongst these kinds of tools? Is it supposed to be visually pleasing or something?

Someone's college project gone wild? I came via Google to see if there was a solution to this for one of my customers. I appreciate all the helpful suggestions I've found although I have to agree with you Noel Carboni Yeah I saw you can IF you pretend there's no such thing as 64 bit architecture but When I implement solutions for customers I don't like leaving possibilities open that they will later encounter problems.

A good cross section of my clients do not a understand much at all of the OS behind-the-scenes humdrum that I sift through for them and b do not wish to use nor is it easy for them to integrate into their experience 3rd party utilities that do this. Having said this it leaves me here: Thanks a whole lot MS. Having read all previous posts it seems I'm not alone, either, when I say you could have thought about your "little people" more.

I personally have no issue right click 'Properties'-ing my folders but there are quite a few out there who do mind it. Just read this whole post and you'll see. I warn you though reading it all takes a little bit. Which leads me to my next statement At risk of sounding a little like a media clown from several years ago -- Can't we all just get along?

Seriously guys we're here to listen to each other and try to help the best we can so really can we please stop bashing each other? We all have to sift through that useless stuff and certain posters have to try to overlook that they just got stabbed at! My degree is in Information Technology not Psychology so I don' t really know how to or care how we get this accomplished, but please for goodness sake if you don't have something nice or helpful to say then just don't type.

Move on and do something helpful. Thanks ;. I just installed classicshell about 2 hours and it has taken me this long to get back to normal operation on my pc! Tried almost any of the free solutions Folder Size standalone Xplorer2 lite free version latest denies the use of the feature.. For the sake of sanity While it's not as handy as the extra Folder Size column I agree that this is a Windows 7 miss , it will suffice for helping you find large folders to clean up as you can drill down.

A new feature allows you to right-click on a folder in Windows Explorer to bring up a pop-up with all of the sub-folders and the sizes, which you can then drill down into e. Someone on here mentioned the Pro version, which I can't speak to, but so far the Free version has given me what I need.. Maybe it should be the contrary and we should pay the freewares and not W7? In any case, everytime I have to work with folders and file sizes that's a real pain with win7 explorer, is it possible no developer noticed it?

Aren't they supposed to be power users? Yep, that works. I guess it must take some time to figure out, though, so they avoid doing it in general. For me this feature is bizarrely inconsistent. I can hover over a file or folder in Explorer and wait a second or two and get this info, then I can move down to the next item and wait, and wait and wait and nothing happens.

Then I move to another item and it works again. I have found no way to make it reliably popup. It is a minor annoyance, I realize, but why doesn't it just work every time the same way instead of erratically? It feels sloppy. When I'm trying to find offending shared network folder users, the last thing I want to do is spend a morning or afternoon hovering over folders, wait for a second for it to pop up, type it into excel with the folder name and size, repeat, the sort the spreadsheet to find the largest file so I can tell them to do some house cleaning.

PS, FolderSize works fine locally, but if you have something in Explorer, say a network location, it doesn't see it. Try using the Disk Usage tool from the sysinternals site? Open files. Move or remove the totals at teh bottom. Then sort to show the largest folders. This should give you a better picture of what is taking up the disk space. How will I change that to a network location?

And why run twice? Just a background, we're running vmware and our fileshare lives on the EMC so I just can't remote to it and run this and if I ran it on my machine it would default to my share, not the full folder, so I'd need to browse to it to see what's in there.

I have just installed and tried TreeSizeFree. It works very well, is quite fast and gives me what I want. The analysis is done quite fast, in seconds. Getting data on lower levels is quite easy. In 2 minutes I was able to pinpoint the rogue folders occupying dead space. The Pro version must be good. However as of now the Free version is fine. This is the way for software developers to go.

Example: hover on one folder shows "greater than 8. The Explorer in Windows XP was probably the most customizable version to date you could add or remove a pre-specified set of buttons from the toolbar and customize the layout but the Explorer UI in Windows 7 and Vista had very limited customization options beyond installing third-party add-ons.

Similar to Office, by right-clicking any button in the ribbon, you can add it to the QAT. Additionally, you can choose to have the QAT display above or below the ribbon, and to display the ribbon in an open or minimized state. This is a big increase in the level of customization available in Explorer you can choose approximately commands to add to the QAT and returns it to a level equal to or greater than we had in Windows XP.

Wish them success with their new App Store, and you may find a free or very cheap Windows a possibility in the future. Trouble is, if today at several hundred dollars a copy it still is missing obvious features and has clear engineering flaws, what will it be like if it makes no direct profit at all?

Could be a problem. Get more involved with their customers. People, STOP posting third-party programs as solutions. There are plenty of standalone apps to show disk layout and usage, and it is not hard to find them.

Also, using the Properties dialog or tooltips are not sufficient. People have been using this function via third-party shell-extensions for a while now. Instead of building this functionality into Vista or 7 natively, they actually removed the ability for third-party extensions to provide it. The only way that we can interpret this is that Microsoft does not care about it customers. Well, either that or they hate their customers and actively, purposely try to frustrate and make life difficult for the people that pay their salaries.

Try using Bitser, it offers the option from explorers context menu so you only need to waste resources calculating folder sizes if you really need to.

Screenshot below. On the contrary, SequoiaView is superior to your tool. It's just a matter of preference. I'm sure SequoiaView is a fine piece of software, and its UI likely seems preferable to some but not others. I didn't mean to put it down - I should have used a bunch of smilies. Sorry to answer on an old thread, but it looks like people are still interested -- I know I am!

As a recent Mac convert to Win, I can't tell you how frustrating it is to not even have an optional column for Folder size or to include folders in the size column again, optionally.

So, once cygwin is installed, open a cmd prompt, cd to the directory where you want to scan folder sizes, and issue this command:. The -h switch makes it into human-readable numbers G, M, K etc is denoted. However, it doesn't sort them. There's a couple of ways to do that. I prefer to skip the -h switch and copy the output into Excel or OOO, LibreOff, etc and sort there - the output sizes will be in raw bytes without the -h switch. Why choose this over other freeware options? This will help you keep your command-line skills sharp, or at least not completely rusty anyway.

You can also then continue working with the command line while having the folder list up in Excel where it is freely sortable, calc'able, formatable, etc. Yes People are still interested. Laymen like me resent having to spend over an hour trying to find out how one can see folder sizes listed with Winows 7. After all the money that these products make for MS the least one would expect is to be treated like a grown up and not like a delinquent who would misuse such an essential funtionality.

Hope MS listens. I have a work around for a small? Use Finder on the Mac side and navigate into your virtual machine sub-directories, right click on any folder and select Show view options, and check calculate all sizes. It will take some time but you will be able to "see" file and folder sizes. It is using a Mac capability to overcome a Windows weakness.

I am not the expert that many of you are but I continue to be impressed by Mac OS compared with Windows OS in my crude side by side comparison. Heresy but it worked. Yes, Mac's are nice, but they really are expensive. And, Microsoft, why remove extremely useful content from your OS? Adding third party apps to Windows, has always been they only way to work efficiently with these operating systems - so tools like FolderSize were a fantastic solution.

Though I'm not suggesting that Microsoft should consult 3rd party developers before creating their products. What Microsoft should do is take a look at why 3rd party tools like FolderSize are so popular. Then maybe think about adding functionality to Windows, instead of removing it I could go on a rant about networking in Windows 7 and what a real pain that is - but I wont. However, that being said, from my perspective Windows 7 is hands down the best operating system Microsoft has produced.

Back on-off topic - has anyone mentioned Q-Dir? Installable or portable replaces explorer with multi-tab environment and shows folders sizes - amongst other things.

I downloaded and installed Q-Dir, but the size column is blank next to folders, and after looking through all other columns to display, I did not find any that would show the size of a folder's contents. Can someone tell me what I am missing?

I got it: you have to change the settings as explained on the page, and then restart q-dit. Now it works:. I came here looking for a solution, but there appears to be none. I just don't like windows explorer in Win7. I've decided to use this alternative. It pains me to hear windows users that toss up the "just right click and view properties" I need a quick look that FolderSize would provide. I honestly thought this would be resolved by now.

Remember how horrible the search feature used to be in Outlook? You had to use a 3rd party app called "Lookout" just to find your stuff in Outlook.

So, MS bought them up, hid them for a while, but finally incorporated their technology into Office and Windows search feature. It's not super great, but I do give credit where it is due. Microsoft has a much better search feature than before as long as you choose Search all Mail Items Anyway, find this guy in Canada But we don't have to do that anymore So stop telling me to right click on the damn properties button to see how large the folder is.

God bless all of you Microsoft people who lived thru Windows Millinium! I see they kept you around long enough to do it again with Vista! Seriously though, I love Win7. It's the true successor to XP and earned it's props. It's my opinion, so let me continue my rant. But really, find a solution to this problem. I have read the info as to why it would be so difficult and the extra-ordinary resources it would take to provide that info each time you fired up Windows Explorer if it is still called that.

I don't need it to be balls on accurate! I just need a good idea of where the space hogs are. If it's such a resource hog, provide the option to turn it off We still have the Remote Registry Service on by default God knows we can't turn that off to perhaps make way for a useful program for, I don't know, anything else! What the hell is Remote Registry anyway?

Has anyone every used this or allowed your registry to be altered remotely? Anyway, I'm off my point, don't answer that.. I don't really care Folder Size works well in Win7. The only downside is that it takes time to scan each drive each time you open it. Maybe there's a way around that but I haven't found it. ExplorerXP is even better. It is now my replacement for Windows Explorer.

I have had no problems with it in Win7. They don't use their own operating system!! That's the only plausable explaination for this and a ton of other incredible features and user interface flaws my 5-years-old cousin could see in 4 minutes of usage. I suggest to switch operating system. If this is not possible, maybe a full replacement of explorer is better then patching a broken garbage.

Download Link:. It doesn't handle locked folders particularly gracefully throwing up an error window and it crashes occasionally, but, other than the odd flakiness it works just fine and allows you to sniff out space hogs.

PS I really don't get why Windows can't show folder spaces. If only Apple and Microsoft were to get together and combine their OSes--merge the best of both worlds into one. This is just fantastic! I had same problem with Vista. What is UP with that??

Anyway, this is a terrific alternative. I'd tried numerous other apps, but they all seem to show just folders like TreeSize. I could go anywhere in Vista and simply repopulate to get all I needed. Count me a happy camper. OK everyone, some development has been made on this topic since the original post. An actual working solution to the problem of not having a foldersize column is to use a freeware program called Q-Dir.

The website is written in poor English, but the software is great. I have been using it for a few days and absolutely love it.

Play with the settings for 10 minutes to get it to look how you like it and you will be hooked. I did not see this as a listed solution forgive me if it was nuanced. It works as it should and, keep me honest here, it uses resources local to my laptop to do all of the calculations --except for the network draw it takes to query the remote folders I wholeheartedly agree with the posts that FolderSize in Explorer is the most desirable and this was my way of harnassing that strength.

Nes Pas? Big advantage also, if you are in the "normal" MS explorer, you just have to right click on a folder and choose Q-dir to open the folder and its contents with all the information that you need.

Since there's apparently no du. Thanks in advance. OK, here's my story. If I click on the windows explorer icon in the toolbar I get a view with the tree layout on the left side and the four top level library icons on the display window.

If I click on the Document icon I get a list of folders. If I right click on a folder I get a short menu with properties at the bottom.

If I click on properties I get a window with a bunch of things I don't understand, but no size. However, if I go back to the left hand side tree and click on Documents I get the same list of documents on the right side, if I right click on them I get the long menu with the choices like open, cut, copy, delete and properties at the bottom.

If I click on this properties the window opens and starts calculating the folder size. Now if you wanted to calculate the size of all the folders in your document file, all you have to do is create another folder under Documents and cut and paste all your folders and put them in that folders, then use the above method to check the size of that folder.

You'll also be able to find the size of individual folders as well. The only way to see them is to select-all. However, notice that if you select more than 15 items in the bin, it will force you to click the link to show their sizes? Moreover, notice that if you select even one folder or bookmark.

Idiocy incarnate.