How much space are you wasting in what directories? The eternal question... okay maybe not the eternal question I make it out to be, but indeed it can spell life or death for you when you're trying to install a new bloatware application.
Well you really shouldnt be installing bloatware, but I realize its inevitable sometimes. In other cases, you can get by with only using tiny apps but you just might unfortunately have a smaller disk drive. Or maybe you're just actually concerned about running a tight ship and you dont want to feed your bytes to the mice inside your harddrive that swallow up those precious megabytes, especially around the time that you need them ;)
That's when you need duw, or Disk Usage for Windows NT/95. That's the official title. This is a great app. The homepage can be found at http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/5806/duw.htm
Alright, so you want to recover some of that free space. The question is where to start. Youve got a million directories, and in each directory a million more. That makes quite the googleplex.
That's when you turn to disk usage for windows, the program that examines your hard disk and shows you how much space your files use, and where that space is concentrated -- so you can delete the useless files that build up over time.
It's pretty simple to install disk usage for windows, all you do is run the setup file like usual and boom! its done.
It has three columns, a directory column, a bytes column, and a files column. You can also save the information about the directory you're viewing in a file, for later perusal, or maybe so you can print it out and read it at the next party your in-laws give ;) That's a little mean isn't it... oops ;)
You can choose a directory to examine, and you can order by the fattest directories, so you can quite easily see what's going on, who is using what, and who is on your list to eliminate. I doubt you'll be doing this too much because of installing tiny apps but you might have to if you download music or videos, or just write a lot lot lot of text.
There is always one, but luckily its not terrible -- you should still read it though: the downside of disk usage for windows.
In the final analysis, duw, or Disk Usage for Windows is a serious contender to all those expensive disk analysis tools. It does the majority of what the majority want, with only a few minor defects.
For more information and other programs that allow you to analyze your disks in non-traditional ways, you can check out disk analysis.