Windows Toolbox: Track Disk Space Hogs With the Free TreeSize
No matter what you do, Windows' annoying low-disk-space warnings won't stop. How do you determine which of your bazillion folders hold the real space wasters? One easy--and free--solution is TreeSize from Joachim Marder of JAM Software. The program uses Explorer's familiar folder-tree diagram to show the contents of a selected folder or drive, but it adds a bar chart for each branch so you can see which folder or group of nested folders takes up the most space. You can configure the display to see the size of each folder, the bytes allocated to each, the percentage of space each consumes, or the bytes wasted due to empty space in clusters used by the FAT32 disk format. For a more sophisticated analysis of your files and folders, try JAM Software's $40 TreeSize Professional shareware. Browse to JAM Software to download the free version of this utility.
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