Erotic displays the information on the disk. How can you figure out which folders and files on your computer take up the most space? The assessment of the space occupied by files on disks using the additional program WinDirStat has now been realized

The TreeSize Free program is used to display the amount of memory that deals with directories on PC storage media (hard drives, flash drives, CD/DVD, etc.) in a tree-like representation. Any hoarder who is a hoarder gets tired of it early and late and the food comes up: “Where does the space on the disk go?” Having quickly used this utility, it becomes clear how much space each directory takes up in KB, MB, GB, or in a high-speed mobile device, and will clearly show the volume in the form of histograms. TreeSize Free also shows how many files are in the folders.

Place on disk

Summary information about disk space can be sorted by directory names or by the amount of allocated disk space. The program implements the function of installing filters - you can enable or disable file types that will participate or be ignored when cleaning the occupied space. After scanning the catalogs, the displays of the occupied space can be separated as if they were published. The TreeSize Free utility will come in handy when the time has come to delete your application, clear the storage space to find the right space on the disk. In the archive for downloading there is also a version of the included program and a distribution kit for the U3 USB stick.

The size of current hard drives is measured in terabytes, but there is more space on them, as before, who knows. And if you are a Swedish, or much smaller, solid-state accumulator, the situation could be catastrophic.

Using these three programs, you can clearly estimate what and how much space is taking up on the disk, and praise the solution for cleaning it.

The most popular cleaner for Windows has in its arsenal a special tool for searching for large files. You can find it in the “Service” section and it’s called “Disk Analysis”.

The distribution of disk space is illustrated with additional pie charts that display the distribution between the main types of files - images, documents, videos. Below is a table with reports on skin type.

After starting the latest assessment of hard disk capacity, WinDirStat displays a new map of your hard drive. It is made up of different squares, the size of which corresponds to the size of the file, and the color of its type. Clicking on any element allows you to find out its exact size and location on the disk. Using additional buttons on the toolbar, you can delete any file or view it in the file manager.

SpaceSniffer is a wonderful alternative to CCleaner and WinDirStat. This cost-free program can show a map of the disk's fullness in the same way as the previous utility. However, here you can easily adjust the depth of view and the number of details that are displayed. This makes it possible to start with the largest directories, and then dig deeper and deeper into the file system until you find the most complete files.

Available in earlier versions of Windows and less available in Windows 10 versions standard tool for analyzing computer disk space, unfortunately, without adopting the capabilities of numerical third-party software with this method. How many good ideas could be gleaned from third-party disk space analyzers such as WinDirStat, SequoiaView, or Xinorbis. Microsoft may have thought that the best way to inherit would be to reduce the storage of these memory cards in mobile devices. As a standard disk space analyzer in the Windows 10 warehouse, you can consider it as a valuable tool for periodically clearing space on a computer disk - these items have a lower capacity.

The main programs for analyzing the disk space of a computer are to provide a manual format of files stored on the computer. Ideally, such information may include a selection of data by disk partition, folder, category and file type, chronology of appearance of files and their containers. Sorting files according to all these criteria makes it possible to periodically conduct detailed analysis on a computer and eliminate unnecessary data. Selecting a number of files from one or another partition of the disk allows you to quickly increase disk space if necessary. Having sorted the files one by one, you can try to find the most important ones among them, thereby freeing up space on the disk for other, more important data.

The function for analyzing disk space is included in the standard Metro add-on. "Parametri».

In separate "System"

The lower part of the "Storage" window of Windows 10 is dedicated to the storage of certain categories of files, and the upper part is the same standard analyzer of the computer's disk space. By selecting one of the disk partitions or connecting external storage information, the information is most likely similar to that presented for memory cards in mobile devices. On the top of the window there is a visual scale of the completeness of the disk partitions and the accumulated data of the underlying disk space in gigabytes. Below we will clearly focus on the following categories of data: system files, installed programs and games, documents, images, videos, music, mail, time and other files.

Unfortunately, the usefulness of a standard disk space analyzer will come to an end. It is not possible to remove any additional detailed information from adjacent folders and files, without any transfer or distortion, depending on the size of the files. To understand such subtleties, Windows 10 directs you to the system explorer. The folder paths that are displayed in the standard analyzer are opened by clicking in Windows Explorer, and the files in these folders can be sorted by size by selecting their display in the table view.

In addition to the fact that the folders are anonymous, data beyond their size cannot be quickly retrieved, and the folder size is not displayed in the system explorer. Each subfolder will have to be opened manually, you will be able to transfer files by size and then look through the files that claim to be deleted.

By category of data on the system disk partition “System and reserved” The situation is still complicated.

Here we simply need some information about how much space is taken up besides the system data, but we must not forget to send a message to the system explorer. So, please, the system has been stolen from newcomers. There is only one button here – “Manage system updates”, which leads to the division of powers of the system, where, within the framework of work with update points, you can view them (except for the rest) in order to remove some minor obligations.

From the reasonable capabilities of the standard Windows 10 disk space analyzer, you can, in principle, only two - a simple way to clean up timely files and remote programs. The first option is available by selecting the data category “Time Files”. By pressing the button “Download of time-sensitive files”, quickly remembering such things that are saved in Temp folders on the system drive, where a significant amount of unnecessary data will accumulate over time.

Another miraculous possibility of free space on the disk is revealed to us when selecting a category “Additions and games”. Here, in one place, it is possible to sort all the installations of desktop programs, games, and Metro add-ons by their size. Plus, this category of data is equipped with an uninstaller for quickly removing programs, games and programs that are not subject to abuse. Third-party Metro programs installed from the Windows store do not have to be uninstalled, they can simply be transferred to another place on the computer in order to effectively clean up the system partition of the disk.

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Due to the simplicity and intuitiveness of the organization and interface, the standard disk space analyzer of Windows 10 can become a terrible tool for beginners, even if they want to be a little thoughtful. This is ideal for clearing the system partition of the disk, as we will deal with the classic situation of the complexity of the user profile (“Vanture”, “Video”, “Music”, “Image”, etc.). But for general cleaning of the computer - thorough clearing of all disk space - third-party programs are better suited for these purposes. These are the programs that are included in the beginning of the article, as well as other functions in the warehouse of software assemblies for comprehensive monitoring of the computer (for example,) or for work with a hard disk (for example, HDTune).

We already know the situation is rich... We regularly download a lot of everything from the Internet - movies, videos, music, games, etc. As a result, you will be too lazy to start cleaning your computer from unnecessary information that is saved on the hard drive, or never again :) As a result, the computer’s hard drives will become so full that the explorer Windows obliged the free place, which was lost, already the red notes with a woman, then it’s time to come to the end. It’s good if everything doesn’t need to be accumulated here in one folder (for example, the “Love” folder for downloading files from the Internet). Let’s look at a lot of large files, scattered in batches all over your hard drive, and then figure out what takes up the most space and what is stored in the computer becomes almost inconceivable. Standard Windows features do not allow you to quickly evaluate where the most data is saved on your computer, except for this purpose there are special third-party programs, one of which is WinDirStat, which is free of charge. It also shows which files and in what order are being stored on the hard drive, which makes it easy to analyze what we no longer need and can immediately delete! Well, in this article I will show you how easy it is to estimate what and how much space is taken up on your hard drive, as well as how much space is being wasted.

A quick estimate of the space occupied by files on disks using Windows Explorer

I’ll start by showing you how, through the use of Windows Explorer, you can roughly estimate where and what is taking away from us. To do this, you need to open Windows Explorer in the new, first of all, section “Computer” (or “My Computer”, like Windows XP).

This section displays all local disks on which data can be stored. The local disk is partitioned on your hard disk, so it is part of it. For example, I have 3 local disks (see the picture above), so the entire hard disk is divided into 3 parts.

You can find detailed information about those that burned the hard drive, as it appears, and about other computer devices in the following statistics.

In this window you can clearly see how much space is occupied on the skin by local disks and how many other things. As soon as the area loses its dew, the dark under the disk will turn red. For example, I have a very clogged section “D”, which I use myself to save any special data. My Windows programs and programs are saved on the C: drive.

Now, let's go to the disk, where the most occupied place is. Now you can no longer just walk around with folders and manually evaluate the skin. Windows seems to not show through the “Size” section of the Explorer how much space is occupied by the same folder. Displays the file size of the selected folder. To see how much space a folder takes up, you need to hover the mouse cursor over it and, without pushing, hold the cursor over the folder for about 3 seconds. The result will display information in the drain window, where the item “Size” will appear.

This is located on the disk that this folder occupies.

Or you can right-click your mouse (or “RMB”) on your dad, then select “Power” from the context menu.

The folder size varies according to the window:

And in this way, opening the largest folders one by one, we will eventually select the folder where the largest files are saved, which take up the most space on the disk. Are there a lot of such places? For example, films in different quantities are distributed in different folders + games and other files. Then the search will come out twisted and unmanageable. It’s simpler if the owner himself roughly remembers where he put everything and carefully puts everything into folders, for example, films and videos in “Video”, photos in “Image”. And in this case, you don’t really appreciate what, where and how the files are, especially with large hard drives, 1.5 TB or more.

The assessment of the space occupied by files on disks using the additional program WinDirStat has now been realized

The WinDirStat program allows you to quickly see what folders and files occupy how much space on all local drives. In this case, you can sort by item at a time, so that the files and folders that take up the most space on the disks are displayed first. You can also see in person what kind of file format it is (video, or else, for example), as well as a lot of useful functions...

Pre-installation and installation of programs

The program is very easy to install and does not require any special settings during installation.

You can read the report on installing programs for Windows from statistics -.

Official website of the program, its stars can be downloaded:

There is no need to adjust anything in the coming days, it’s just pressure.

In the next two windows we also simply press “Next”.

In the remaining window, click “Close” to complete the installation:

Once the installation is complete, the program will be launched automatically.

Vikoristannya program

It’s really easy to use the program. When you start the program, you are prompted to select which parts of your hard drive (local drives) will be analyzed. If you save almost everything on one disk, then select “Individual disks”, select the required disk and click “OK”. Otherwise, the data can be distributed across different disks, in short, select “All local disks” (1) and click “OK”.

Then the program thoroughly analyzes the selected sections of the hard drive in order to display a new “picture”, which takes you away from the designated file formats. The scanning process will appear in the form of small packages that are running (like the old game on a computer):

At first, the analysis process can take a lot of time, and with repeated launches of the program, it will be much faster. After the analysis is completed, the program will look like this:

In the “Grown” section, your selected hard drive partitions are displayed based on the amount of space occupied on your computer, the number of folders, files, etc. information. The right-hand version has information about the types of files that you have on your computer, as well as the assigned color size for each type of file, and the number of colors assigned to each type of file. These colors can be displayed in the window below, as much space as the other type of file takes up.

Analysis of your work using an additional “tree” of files and folders

Let's take a look at the head of the smut, so that the evil in the fire will be dissolved.

Here the main point is to pay attention to the “Size” section, which initially arranges all your disks and folders in them according to the volume that can be occupied by the computer, in the order of change.

For example, it is clear that the space on all disks is up to 917.7 GB. With this, the most space occupied on disk D: 436.1 GB. This can also be seen from the column “Vysotkova stavleniya”, i.e. the column shows how much space is occupied by one or another disk compared to the other occupied space.

By clicking on the disk, we open it instead, similar to Windows Explorer.

Here we can easily assess how much space is occupied by the skin of the folders in the middle, focusing on the same “Size” and “Size” sections. And again, the largest folders will be on the bottom for ease of reference. At the very bottom, there will probably be folders that will take up a minimum of available disk space. The color designation in the column “Vidsotkov’s Statue” means the number of things visible in this papa. The greater the size, the more folders in the middle in relation to the number of files. In principle, this is not the same show of respect.

If there are files in each folder, for the sake of convenience they are grouped as “Files” so that you can open this group and download all the files at once, and not mix them up with folders.

This way, you can quickly evaluate which drives and folders on them take up the most space on your computer and analyze what is in them, and then remove those that you do not need. To select any element, you need to click on the right mouse button and select one of the options “View (up to the limit)” or “View (without the possibility of updating)”.

In the first step, the elements (folders or files) are displayed, as we know, in a box and they can be displayed, if necessary, rotated. In another type, the files are deleted forever, bypassing the cat and updating them, either with special programs for updating, for example “R.Saver” or a paid analogue “R-Studio”.

Analysis of the space occupied by files by their types

Using the right-hand window in conjunction with the window below, you can clearly estimate which files themselves (by their type) take up the most space on disks. File types will also be ordered by the size they occupy, in descending order, so that the files that take up the most space will be burned. The truth is here, in order to get your bearings, you should know what each of the file types is overprotected for, what it is used for and what kind of program it is supported by.

For example, in my image you can see that the most commonly used files are “MOV” (.mov) format files, then “TechSmith Recording” (.trec) files, “Vmware virtual disk file” (.vmdk) files, etc.

".mov" files, for example, are one of the video file formats that can be output when recording video from a camera or camera. They are revealed, in principle, as a video programmer. ".trec" files are videos recorded through the Camtasia Studio program (for screen recording, video editing). “.vmdk” are virtual machine files for software that allows you to create and run virtual machines WMWare Player (or for the paid analogue WMWare Workstation). Such formats are obviously not familiar to beginners, but for the most part understand , for example, what kind of formats are these? "JPG" (image), "AVI" (video), "MP3" (audio).

By clicking on one of the file formats, at the bottom of the program you will see how the files are distributed across hard drives, their quantity and utility compared to others. For each file format, the file has its own color. For example, right-handed, I selected the .mov format (1). And at the bottom of the graphic video data, the files began to be highlighted (2).

It is clearly visible that I have a lot of such files on my disks, and they are all of such an average size. To make things even more balanced: larger squares are displayed in a green color, but then there are fewer of them.

These are the “.vmdk” files of created virtual machines. The squares are large because the files themselves are much larger, since the .mov video files on my computer are smaller, and the number of green squares is much smaller.

By clicking on one of the squares, the path to the file indicated by that square will be displayed at the bottom of the program window, which is also very easy. For example, it is immediately obvious that the largest files on my computer have been deleted.

Visnovok

I think that anyone who is already actively using their computer should regularly be updated with this data and appreciate the power of disk analysis through the WinDirStat program. As a matter of fact, Windows’ built-in capabilities for manually identifying files and folders located on the computer cannot be dated. Then, through WinDirStat, you can see everything in person, and it literally immediately dawned on you that you won’t have to figure out the program for a long time. And the best thing is that there is no need to set up the program, because everything is set up, in my opinion, ideally, so that all the necessary information is displayed.

Have a wonderful day and a wonderful mood! :)

Good afternoon.

People often ask me the same questions, but in a different interpretation: “why is the hard disk clogged?”, “why has the space on the hard disk changed, even if I haven’t downloaded anything?”, “how to find out the files that are taking up space on the HDD ? etc.

To evaluate and analyze the occupied space on your hard drive, you need special programs so you can quickly find out all the applications and delete them. Vlasna, about this and there will be this article.

Analysis of occupied hard disk space in diagrams

1. Scanner

Official website: http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/

A very useful utility. The advantages are obvious: it supports the Russian language, no installation is required, the work is highly flexible (a 500 GB hard drive was considered a piece of cake!), and takes up very little space on the hard drive.

The results of the robotic program are presented in a small window with a diagram (div. Fig. 1). If you point your mouse at the required items with diagrams, you can immediately understand what takes up the most space on the HDD.

For example, on my hard drive (div. Fig. 1), approximately one-fifth of the available space is occupied by films (33 GB, 62 files). Before speaking, there are quick buttons to go to the “installation of the remote program” option.

2. SpaceSniffer

Official website: http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/index.html

Another utility will not require installation. When starting up the computer, ask to vibrate the disk (indicate the letter) to scan. For example, my Windows system disk has 35 GB, of which the virtual machine occupies about 10 GB.

The analysis tool is very basic, it helps you to immediately understand the clogged hard drive, where the files are stored, in which folders and on which topic... I recommend it to vikoristan!

Rice. 2. SpaceSniffer - analysis of the Windows system disk

3.WinDirStat

Official website: http://windirstat.info/

Another utility of this kind. Let us know beforehand that in addition to simple analysis and the composition of the diagrams, it also shows the expansion of files that prepare the diagram for the required color (div. Fig. 3).

You can use it manually: the interface is in Russian language, it’s clear (for example, cleaning the cat, editing directories, etc.), works with all popular Windows: XP, 7, 8.

Rice. 3. WinDirStat analyzes the drive "C:\"

4. Free Disk Usage Analyzer

Official website: http://www.extensoft.com/?p=free_disk_analyzer

This program is the simplest tool for quickly finding large files and optimizing disk space.

Free Disk Usage Analyzer will help you organize and manage your available HDD disk space by searching for the largest files on the disk. You can quickly find out where large files are located, such as videos, photos and archives, and move them to another location (or delete them later).

Before speaking, the program supports Russian language. There are also tips that will help you clean the HDD of waste and timely files, remove programs that are not corrupted, find the largest folders and files, etc.

5.TreeSize

Official website: http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/

This program does not have any displays, but it manually sorts the folders located on the hard drive. It’s also easy, once you know the folder, which takes up a lot of space – click on it and open it in Explorer (div. arrows in Fig. 5).

Regardless of the fact that the program is in English, it’s just a breeze to get started with it. Recommended for both cobs and advanced growers.

Rice. 5. TreeSize Free - results of analysis of the system drive C:\

Prior to the speech, it is important to the Horstkoy disc. I can take it like the same “smitte” of the Timchasovi files (before the speech, through them to be in the house on the Zhorstsky disc, not to be a smoked one on the nyogo I do not jump!). It is necessary to periodically clean your hard drive using special utilities: CCleaner, FreeSpacer, Glary Utilites, etc. More details about such programs.

That's all for now. I will be grateful for additional information on the topic of statistics.

Successful PC work.