Here’s a tool I can no longer go without. The premise is simple: it’s MUCH easier to visualize what’s using up your disk space, rather than look for it. Enter WinDirStat. Run this thing as a portalable app or install it, and you get beautiful looking graphic representations of your drive – complete with the ability to hover over blocks and identify what’s taking up so much space on your disk.
Here’s a drive with a ridiculous amount of Analytics Logs on it (remember to prevent Analytics from logging like crazy with log4j configurations!):
… and here’s another one I ran on my Windows 7 laptop – wow, Virtual Machines take up a lot of space, as does that crazy Windows Side-by-Side Assemblies folder! :
Tags: Cool Tools, WinDirStat