How To Find Out Folder Size in Windows?

Dashken · 21st Nov 2007, 02:28 PM

For years, all through the lifetime of Windows, determining folder size remains one of the most demanded feature. Windows Vista which was released about 10 months ago still left out this feature. I understand that updating the folder size all the time may impact performance but why not have that as an option disabled by default but readily available for user?

Hence, this spawns all types of software be it freeware or shareware for the purpose of just checking out the size of folders in Windows.

This is useful when you want to find out which folders are taking up all your hard disk space. In Windows, to do this, you'll have to right-click on each folder, go to Properties and wait for the system to scan through all the folders and files within before reporting the size of that particular folder. A waste of time and resources if you ask me. It's especially apparent when the folder is more than 500MB. You can even brew yourself a cup of coffee and when you are back, probably the process is still running.

So, is there something better? Do read on and find out.

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peaz · 24th Nov 2007, 12:20 AM

I simply just use a disk triage software... but those take a long time to scan all the files and directories though. hahaha

21st Nov 2007, 02:28 PM	#1 (permalink)
Dashken Administrator! Join Date: 21 Apr 2003 Location: Penang Posts: 29,391 Reputation: 2015 Rep Power: 55	How To Find Out Folder Size in Windows? For years, all through the lifetime of Windows, determining folder size remains one of the most demanded feature. Windows Vista which was released about 10 months ago still left out this feature. I understand that updating the folder size all the time may impact performance but why not have that as an option disabled by default but readily available for user? Hence, this spawns all types of software be it freeware or shareware for the purpose of just checking out the size of folders in Windows. This is useful when you want to find out which folders are taking up all your hard disk space. In Windows, to do this, you'll have to right-click on each folder, go to Properties and wait for the system to scan through all the folders and files within before reporting the size of that particular folder. A waste of time and resources if you ask me. It's especially apparent when the folder is more than 500MB. You can even brew yourself a cup of coffee and when you are back, probably the process is still running. So, is there something better? Do read on and find out. As the post is pretty long to post it here... please jump to @ How To Find Out Folder Size in Windows? __________________ \| Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 @ 3.2Ghz \| ASUS P5B-E Plus \| G.SKILL 2x1GB DDR2 800 \| 6 HDDs (2TB+ only ) \| NVIDIA GeForce 7600GT \| Dell E248WFP 24" Widescreen \| Blog : Dashken's I-Blog Gallery : Dashken's I-Paintings

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