What's Taking Up All That Hard Drive Space?

If you have a hard drive that is quickly approaching capacity, sorting through the files and folders for the ones taking up the most space can be a really time-consuming process. Finding large unnecessary files can be a trying and time consuming task.... and frustrating.  I found a free application that helps with this.

Folders are sorted from largest to smallest in file size after the scan is complete. You can then browse through the folders looking for space eating hogs.

For help identifying space hogs, turn to Jam Software's  TreeSize Free, which is available for Windows. Once downloaded and installed I would suggest selecting "Launch TreeSize Free as Administrator". Select "Finish" and Launch the program. The application will then go to scan automatically. If you have more then one drive you will need to select the drive letter you want to scan. and select the drive you want to take a look at. The application shows you, in gigabytes, megabytes, and kilobytes, how big each folder is, ranked from most to least.

One of the nice things you can do with TreeSize Free is drill down into subfolders to see what sort of space is being taken up. If I want to right click on a folder and see what the files are like or delete them. 

A word of caution friends. As always be sure you don't need the file before deleting it.