Finding large files on windows vista

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Come for the solution, stay for everything else. Welcome to our community! RUA Volunteer2? I am a confessed XP Pro lover. For the life of me I just get lost in Vista. It is like building cars for years the same basic way then suddenly someone decides to mount the steering wheel on the ceiling of the car rather than the dash board.

Anyway I have apparently some large files sitting out on my PC and I just wanted to check the videos because I make training videos and record TIVO to my PC but for some unexplained reason I have had trouble with network permissions and saving things consistently so I thought i would ask help on searching. If you do, try the following top 9 ways now to fix it!

You can also use Command Prompt to find large files Windows To do that, please refer to the following steps:. Then, type " cmd " into the Run box and hit Enter key to open Command Prompt window. It is helpful for batch jobs. Then, let's learn about the command string if fsize GTR echo path.

Apart from the above two ways, you can also use a third-party program to find large files on Windows. Then, I recommend you to use MiniTool Partition Wizard, which offers you a free feature to find large files.

Free Download. Step 1: Click the above button to download MiniTool Partition Wizard and then follow the wizard to launch it. Then, go to its main interface and click Space Analyzer. Step 2: Choose the partition where you want to find large files and folders. Then, click Scan. The result also includes hidden files even if you didn't set your PC ahead to display them. In these tabs, find large files or folders to delete them.

The Tree View presents you with a hierarchical view of files and folders in the partition that has been analyzed. Each folder may contain a number of subfolders and you can expand it to show subfolders or collapse it to hide subitems.

To find the large files or files taking up a lot of space on the partition, you can click Size or Percent of Parent to make all files and folders listed according to their size or the percentage they take up. If you have found out the large files you want to delete, you can right-click them to choose Delete to Recycle Bin or Delete Permanently. It's up to you.

File View only displays files, not folders. Similarly, click Size or Percent of Drive and all files will be listed according to their size or the percent of drive they take up.

Then, you can find large files to delete them. Contrary to File View, Folder View will only list folders. If you want to find the exact folders that take up a lot of space on the drive, you should check Show last level directories.

Then, make these folders listed according to Percent of Drive or Size and find the large folders to delete them. To know more about Space Analyzer feature, please read this wizard. After finding large files on Windows, you may want to delete files to free up disk space, especially the C drive.

However, to delete files in C drive, you should know what files will not affect the system and can be deleted. Then, here are some tips:. Delete personal files and programs. If you have stored personal files like documents, photos, and videos on C drive, you can delete them without worry. Download free here. A similar product is sequoia view, also very easy to use works fine on xp and win7 only tried it on these two. Thanks for the article, just tried Space Sniffer for the first time and love it!

Something funny going on though, this article is dated Oct 16 this year, but there are comments from two years ago? Well spotted Mr. Raymond is going to write about the reasons for this and other things such as the new theme hopefully in the next few days. As Treesize and JDiskReport were in the original post, any commments that can stay were left in. Great post!

Keep up the great work, Hal Always a buzz to get ideas from this site. I found 2 monstrous sized Hotmail files for MS Outlook! So I moved them to E drive instead of C. Freeing C drive with additional 10 GB. Thank you so much!

I was one of the people who got CCleaner and started wiping files and defragmenting my disk for small amounts of space, going through my official list of programs and finding nothing that takes up that much space, or finding things that take up space that i still use. You saved me so much space.

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