How to tell what the biggest files on your computer are?

Question

Is their a program that can tell you what the biggest sized files on your computer are? That way it can make it more simpler for you to get rid of space on your computer...

(i.e) for people who have lots of movies and songs on their computer or do a bunch of video editing.

Thank you

Answer 1

You can do a search on your C: drive with *.*
This will list all your files, then click on size to sort them into size order.

Or use something like TreeInfo, to display a map

Answer 2

The Best Way to find the largest files on you computer is to goto search function in the START MENU


There will be a wizard on the Left side
Select "All Files & Folders"

Then it will take you to another step that will ask you for the name of the file that your try to search for. Being that your just looking for large files and not a specific file leave the file name blank.

Directly under that it says "What Size Is it?"

Click on Specific Size and set it to somewhere around 400,00 KB which is 40 Megabits.... Not it will show you all of the files larger than 40 MB on your computer, Just look through the list and find the largest ones

Hope this helps

Answer 3

Jdiskreport. It adds the functionality to the right click in file explorer and even has pie charts and other graphical views. Link below or search download.com

Answer 4

If you go to start -> search, then choose all files or folders, then choose "what size is it?", you can put it a minimum size to search for. Try searching for 50000KB, about 50MB, and bigger. Use a star (*) as the filename.

Answer 5

Go to your control panel and click add/remove programs, then sort it by size, but it's only programs, check your drives with windows explorer, then sort it by size...

Answer 6

I use TreeSize, it's free and easy to use: http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml