Search for large files windows xp

Skip to main content. Searching for Large Files in Windows Occasionally, you may want to perform an advanced search to find large files somewhere on your computer.

Choose a Windows version to get started. Windows 10 Similar to Windows 8 Windows 7. Open Windows Explorer by clicking the folder icon on your taskbar. Locate the search bar in the upper right. When you click it, you'll notice a new "Search Options" tab appear at the top of the window.

This will give you advanced search options. Both portable and installer versions are available. Download Folder Size. For instance, the size of a folder or drive can be displayed as different looking charts such as a pie, ring, bar or a details list.

The color of the charts or the interface look can be changed and a context menu option can be integrated into Explorer. Starting the program gives options to select the folder or drive to scan along with a few previous scan locations and the option to reload a previously saved scan result.

Download the Zip archive on the website to use the portable version. Download JDiskReport. FolderSize did exactly what I wanted, I walked down the folder tree looking for big folders. I found 20gb of Windows install logs from , realized I had a folder duplicated which cleaned up 7gb. The biggest culprit was a 15gb log file for McAfee.

I just needed to see directory sizes so I could investigate. I was putting the task off for years, but this helped me speed it up by orders of magnitude, thanks!! I use Directory Report. It looks just like the MS-Explorer but always shows the folder size. This lets me to quickly drill down to problem folders which contain the huge files. That is the only app that does the job. It finds large files and folders.

It returns the complete report and works very fast too. It has some additional features such as Disks Watchdog. Hi actually none of them check dept of Path directory levels as I can see , but is ther som good tool for that on w? Gave WizTree a go tonight. It does not report accurately at all. I noticed it when I scanned the hard drive I use for all of my games. It was showing many directories as having MB, less, or even 0 bytes, when each are in the multiple GB range.

I just used it on a drive that contains most of my games 1. Oh wow thx. This is awesome! Scanner is the fastest thing of them all he just needed seconds to scan may gb ssd while jdiskreport and WinDirStat need over 10 minutes.

Very useful post. Yeap, I would agree WizTree is a very quick tool and would have been included if it was around when the post was written. It is something that will very likely be added when this post gets an update. Personally, I still prefer SpaceSniffer though :. I have spent days trying to remember the name of this. I kept looking for wizard tree! I agree this is by far the best one to get an overview of everything.

Another free tool of Hard Drive manager for you! With this utility, you can create, format, resize and delete the parition. Totally free for home users. 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. The question though is how do you go about searching for large files on your computer?

Windows provides you with multiple ways to find all the large files that are stored in your drives. Either you can use the built-in tools on your machine to look for these files or you can grab a third-party app that will do the task for you. Also, be sure to c heck out our YouTube video from our sister site Online Tech Tips where we go through some of the options mentioned below in this article.

File Explorer comes with a lot of hidden features to let you organize, sort, and find files on your computer. One of its abilities is to help you find files that are of a specific size on your computer. Using this feature, you can locate those memory-hogging files and get them removed from your PC. This is to ensure that Explorer looks for large hidden files in addition to searching for the normal files.

However, be cautious when dealing with hidden files. Most of the time, these are system and app-related files which, if you delete, will cause your apps to malfunction and even lead your entire system to crash. Open the Start Menu and search for Show hidden and click on Show hidden files and folders. When the dialog box opens, click on the View tab at the top. Find the option that says Show hidden files, folders, and drives and put a checkmark in it.

Then click on the OK button to save your changes. When the utility launches, click on the search box given at the top-right corner.