WinDirStat

littleedge

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So there's this neat thing called WinDirStat, only mentioned in one thread EVER on these forums. http://windirstat.info/ You should download it and get a screeny of your results with some interesting facts. It's actually really neat to find out what is using the most space on your harddrive and stuff. [WinDirStat shows you a pretty coloured boxes-galore display of the different filetypes that make up your computer's files]

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I have a larger total of .bsps than I do .gcfs.
.vmfs account for 0.2% of my total harddrive
My largest map is still Ironworks from October of 2009
My third-most found file is something for WoW
Fourth-most found is stuff from Rift in .pak archives
I have 2.8 Gigs of PDFs, the majority of which are for DnD
 

gamemaster1996

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Just downloaded this and i did find it rather interesting and it's currently helping me to do some tidying on the hard drive (Becuse i think if i have 86GB/255GB left i should probably make more room for more performance and game updates).

I'll edit with interesting things i found out about my harddrive in a minute, (several minutes later) almost there.

Interesting..

25% of my files are GCF's.
The Common Folder now takes up more space than my Username folder.
And the largest game is Sims 2 which i never play and have alot of addons and expansions.
 
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I shall download and wonder where all my space has gone with this.

Downloaded, installed and the program supports finnish language, that's a huge + from me. Haven't seen many programs lately to support finnish. Started the scan and those little pacmans start to run across my screen scanning my hardrive. At this point I got sceared what have I done. Was it really scanning program and not a ultimateharddriveEater?

It's easy to use and has very familiar interface. I love this colorful presentation of my files. Seems like most of my space goes to movies, photoshop files and photos. Interface itself has a remove button for files, open etc. so you can easily remove files with this program and don't have to search the folder manually and then remove wanted files.

Recommended
 
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A Boojum Snark

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I am obligated to also link to Overdisk. I always recommend the two as a pair. While WDS's focus is more on visual display of files themselves, Overdisk helps you locate bloated folders, regardless of the kind of files within them.
 

Karnage

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littleedge

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I am obligated to also link to Overdisk. I always recommend the two as a pair. While WDS's focus is more on visual display of files themselves, Overdisk helps you locate bloated folders, regardless of the kind of files within them.

Yeah I took a glance at Overdisk but didn't need to use it back when I first learned of WinDirStat from you. Looked less pretty, so I was all "Naw" But secretly, this was to make sure that you're alive cuz I haven't seen you in a long time.
Looks like it could be useful to others though.