For as long as I can remember, the Linux GUI environment has always had good ways of seeing useful disk usage statistics, but in the Windows environment this is not the case. The best you can get is a pie or bar chart that doesn’t state too much.
There is a free utility called WinDirStat that will give you very good, very useful (important) information about your hard drive. For example, it’s really easy to answer simple questions such as “What’s the biggest file on my hard drive?” and “What file type is taking up the most space?” The color coding in WinDirStat makes this ridiculously easy to use, and the ability to launch command prompts or Explorer windows that directly go to files is also very trick. On top of all that, WinDirStat is tiny. The installation file is only 645K!
See video below for details.
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