How to discover space horg on your hard drive

If you accept a adamantine drive that is bound abutting capacity, allocation through the files and folders for the ones demography up the best amplitude can be a absolutely time-consuming process. There’s an easier way to do it—it’s the accountable of our best recent Tech Tip.

For advice anecdotic amplitude hogs, let’s about-face to Tree Size Free, which is accessible for Windows 8, as able-bodied as Windows 7, Vista, and XP. Launch the program, go to scan, and baddest the drive you appetite to booty a attending at. The appliance shows you, in gigabytes, megabytes, and kilobytes, how big anniversary binder is, ranked from best to least.

One of the nice things you can do with TreeSize Free is assignment bottomward into subfolders to see what array of amplitude is actuality taken up. If I appetite to appropriate bang on a binder and see what the files are like or annul them, I can go advanced and do that.

Note that TreeSize Free does not dynamically update, so afterwards you annul the abstracts you’ll accept to run the browse afresh to get an authentic calculation of files and abstracts actuality stored.