What is taking up all my hard drive space? |
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| by Oscar Sodani | |
| December 19, 2006 | |
 Oscar Sodani is a founder of Help2Go and owner of Help2Go Networks, an IT consulting firm in the Washington D.C. area. Oscar holds the CISSP certification as well as industry certifications from Microsoft, Cisco and Novell. Luckily, there are several software utilities that can help you figure out what is taking up all of your hard drive space. We recommend a free utility for your Windows PC called TreeSize Free. (If you have a Macintosh computer, read this instead) After you install and run TreeSize Free, it will show you a list of all the folders on your hard drive, in order of how much disk space they are taking up. You can even look at each subfolder, and it will tell you exactly what each folder is doing to add to your hard drive crunch. If you are looking for a more robust product, complete with graphs, tables, and pie charts, they sell a Pro version. I've used the Pro version at work, but for personal use, the TreeSize Free version is all you need. Have a question? Need help? Get free, friendly person-to-person help with your computer questions or spyware questions in our help forums! |
