# Window Folder Size Graph

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/window-folder-size-graph/152845>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 5, 2003, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/window-folder-size-graph/152845 "2003-02-05T02:23:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/window-folder-size-graph/152845/1 "2003-02-05T02:23:04Z")

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I have a 30 gig drive on my laptop. Windows shows that I have about 4.6 gigs free, but I can’t seem to find where the other 22 or so gigs went. Does anyone know of a utility that will provide a graph of the relative folder sizes on a Windows disk? Manually clicking on folders and waiting for the size to be generated is rather…inefficient.

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**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/window-folder-size-graph/152845/2 "2003-02-05T02:29:02Z")

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Well, obviously I know where some of it went, but you get the idea.

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/window-folder-size-graph/152845/3 "2003-02-05T04:34:00Z")

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Not a graph, but it does generate the size of all your folders at once:

[Folder Size 1.0](http://download.com.com/3000-2094-10154607.html?tag=lst-0-5)

And you can’t beat the price (Freeware!)

This one is graphical, but if you have as many folders as I do, the graph is a little unwieldy to be of much intuitive use.

[Space Monger 1.4](http://download.com.com/3000-2248-3376031.html?tag=lst-0-11)

Also freeware.

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**Author:** ![DarrenS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DarrenS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrenS)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/window-folder-size-graph/152845/4 "2003-02-05T08:31:22Z")

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[Disk Space Explorer](http://www.east-tec.com/spex/home/) does the trick - it will draw a zoomable pie chart of disk space usage. It’s free for 30 days then you have to pay for it, I think.

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**Author:** ![Zagadka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zagadka/32/7272_2.png) [@Zagadka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zagadka)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/window-folder-size-graph/152845/5 "2003-02-05T08:39:49Z")

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[Steffan Gerlach’s scanner.exe](http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/) is my poison. I love this program - it is tiny, just an exe file (no install), has a good graphical representation with zooming etc. Absolutely free.