IT 442: Windows Operating System: Space Manager Tools
Space Manager Tools
WinDirStat
- WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for various versions of Microsoft Windows.
- For Linux, you are looking for KDirStat (apt-get install kdirstat
or apt-get install k4dirstat on Debian-derivatives) or QDirStat and for MacOS X it would be Disk
Inventory X or GrandPerspective..
- Its interface allows you to see exactly what’s using space on your hard drive at a glance.
- you can download a portable version of WinDirStat from PortableApps.com if you’d like to take it
with you and use it on various PCs without installing it first.
- WinDirStat doesn’t offer a portable app on its website
- WinDirStat is a free and open-source graphical disk usage analyzer for Microsoft Windows
- WinDirStat
- WinDirStat - Wikipedia
TreeSize Tool
- TreeSize Free is a good alternative to WinDirStat. It's simpler
- The disk space manager TreeSize Free tells you where precious disk space has gone.
- TreeSize is a disk space analyzer written by JAM Software.
- TreeSize has native 32 and 64-bit support for all Windows versions and client/server versions currently supported by Microsoft
- TreeSize
- Microsoft-TreeSize
- TreeSize - wiki
SpaceSniffer
- SpaceSniffer is a freeware computer disk space analyser from Uderzo Software for Microsoft Windows platforms
- It uses a treemap to visualise disk usage.
- SpaceSniffer doesn’t have the directory list included in WinDirStat
- It’s just a graphical view that displays folders and the files in them by relative size
- SpaceSniffer - wikipedia
Windows Storage Usage Tool Is Built In
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