You can open any other drive too, by going to “File” menu and then click on “Open”. When it will finish gathering the files, the tool will show each file with different colored areas for every file type. You need to select the drive which you want to view, then all its folders with size will be shown to you. And the tool is a portable version, so it will not use any of your System resources or won’t run in the background. And it shows the total disk size of your Hard Drive. See also - Xplorer2, a much better Windows Explorer.WinDirStat is a free tool that helps you in visualizing the clear view of your File System, so that you can easily see the folder size of each folder. Make this the default view for all folders.įolder Size is currently available for Windows 2000 and Windows XP but the developer is close to releasing a new version that would work with Windows Vista as well. You may drag the Folder Size column header to where Size used to be. To add the Folder Size column in Windows Explorer, right click on the column headers to see a list of columns you can add and choose “Folder Size” and also uncheck the Size column. If you find this limitation annoying, what you really need is Folder Size - a free utility that adds a new column in your Windows Explorer to display the size of files as well as folders.įolder Size installs a Windows service that scans your hard drive in the background, calculates the folder sizes and caches these results, so the results in most cases are almost instantaneous. The same is true for Windows Explorer available inside XP as well as Vista. When you open any folder inside Windows Explorer (Win+E), it will display the size of individual files contained in that folder but you won’t get to know about the size of various sub-folders that are located inside that folder.
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