Finding out what’s eating your disk space

22May2008 Filed under: Tools Author: admin

Today my computer slowed down to a crawl. I decided to open the Computer window and see what my disks were looking like. My C: drive was down to 300MB (not GB) free! Not a good state to be in. I’ve tried to be really careful about keeping my large files off this drive so I was very confused what was going on. Now rather than click on each folder to find out its properties I did a little googling and found the program WinDirStat. http://windirstat.info/

Short story: This is an awesome program and helped me free up 35GB.

Long story: I was able to find a program whose temp folder wasn’t getting cleaned up resulting in a lot of extra junk. There is no way I could have found this poking around (it was in a pretty obscure location) but it showed up right away in WinDirStat. And best of all the price is right! Free.

Check it out for yourself.

Tags: disk, Tools, windows

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My name is Dan Cramer. I’ve been working at TheraDoc for the past 4 years as a Software Developer. Most recently I’ve been doing a lot of application development using ColdFusion, ColdBox, jQuery, YUI and a bunch of other stuff. This notebook has been setup to document the stuff that I find so that 2 months(weeks) down the road when I forget what I’ve done, I can come back and look at it. And if it helps someone else in the process, then that’s just gravy.