![]() Quick time video files are by far the biggest hard disk space hogs on my system, eating up 61.6GB of disk space and 49.5% of my total HDD capacity. MOV (quicktime video format) files that are taking up space on my hard drive. Notice all the blue? All of the blue blocks correspond to. I love how it color codes file types to give you a quick graphical view of how much the various file types are eating up your HDD. I am just about at capacity and I needed to find out what was eating up all of my disk space so that I could delete some files. The image above (click for higher res) shows a completed WinDirStat scan on my Acer notebook’s HDD. As the program’s Help section explains, it “Shows where all your disk space has gone and helps you clean it up.” It’s simple, easy to use and has a very helpful graphical interface (screenshot below) that shows directory trees and file types in colorful blocks. My favorite at the moment is a completely free utility named WinDirStat. But once you’ve filled up all of your disk space with large files, or just a boatload of smaller files, how do you find what files are eating up all of that space? There’s no easy way to do it natively in the Windows OS, but thankfully there are many 3rd party tools to help you on your quest to find and clean files from your HDD. ![]() Find large files taking up hard drive space in Windows with WinDirStatĪlmost all modern day computer users have run into the pesky problem of filling up a hard disk drive (HDD) to near capacity. ![]()
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