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ok, running low on space on my hd. i used to run a program ages ago called morespace 95 or something back on win95. anyone know a utility that will help me identify large files or folders on my drives? i'm running vista btw.

i know i have some crap that can be deleted...
 


There is the ever old method of going to Free Disk space under Accessories.

On my mac I use Daisy Disk which kinda like WhatSize is very handy at identifying large folders or files.

Closest thing I could find via google that looked like Daisy Disk was this : Visual Directory Explorer: Free Disk Space Finder not nearly as attractive, but looks like it has the same functional use and appears to be free.
 
WinDirStat

But its kinda pointless, if you delete your porn folder, you'll have 90% free space. That's why they invented 2TB disk drives.
 
Buy an external hard drive. They are really cheap these days.

I remember back in win3.1 days I ran outa disk space so I used a trial version of a software to compress my harddrive, result after 30 days cpu was unusable. Luckily I was only about ten years old and someone fixed it. <-cool story bro.
 
gutterseo said:
Buy an external hard drive. They are really cheap these days.

I remember back in win3.1 days I ran outa disk space so I used a trial version of a software to compress my harddrive, result after 30 days cpu was unusable. Luckily I was only about ten years old and someone fixed it. <-cool story bro.
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Back in the DOS 5.5/6.0 days, round the time of Windows 3.1, you didn't need a 3rd party software, rather you ran something called DriveSpace, which was available up until Windows 2000 Professional, (it might have been in XP before SP2.) But there were more risks with it back then as a couple bytes gone wrong would corupt the compressed virtual image.

XP/Vista/7 support NTFS compression which you can usually turn on by checking the properties of a folder. But its usually pointless on larger content which is usually already compressed (jpeg, videos, etc) in their own way. (Snow leopard now has something inheritantly built in for compression on HFS+ drives, where its more useful on things like applications and documentations)

Personally it makes more sense just to get an external harddrive to manage most of the heavy stuff, as something like compression taxes CPU with little benefits in the end.
 
Windirstat for windows is great for this and free it will give you a graphical view of your files so you can see graphically the ones that are huge and mouse over to see if they're needed.
 
Hard drives are dirt cheap these days, maybe you should consider upgrading your hard drive or just adding a new one in. You can get a 1 TB drive for less then $100 now.

If you don't have space in your pc from another hard drive and don't want the hassle of mirroring your current drive and transfering it to a new one, you can always get a external usb hard drive too. A 500 gb external drive can be had for less than $100.
 
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