Need to find out largest files on a drive, REGARDLESS of which folder they're in (vanity)

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[calvin sun]

We have a laptop computer that runs Windows ME. It is running out of space. We deleted a number of large files from the \Windows\temp file, and for a few minutes recovered a great deal of space. But later, we were right back to a "minimal available space" condition. What was going on here?

I know that using Windows Explorer, I can (within a folder) sort files by size. However, I am more interested in having the files listed by file size REGARDLESS of which folder they're in. How can I do so? Thanks.

[Notforprophet]

Click on Start, then Search, then For Files or Folders. Enter *.* in the file name box and start the search. When the search is done, click on the header of the size column to sort by file size.

[Zavien Doombringer]

Hmmm, run a virus scan

Run ad-ware to rid of the spy-ware...

And how big is your hard drive?

[byteback]

Did you empty the recycle bin?

[Zavien Doombringer]

Also your big problem is ME...Go back to Win98 SE or upgrade to 2000/XP

[calvin sun]

Thanks for the quick reply. Needless to say, we will look CAREFULLY at the associated folder before deleting anything. Wouldn't it be funny if we deleted a critical Windows system file?

[Zavien Doombringer]

Wouldn't it be funny if we deleted a critical Windows system file?

Win2000 wouldn't let you do it, niether will XP

[bedolido]

McAfee puts out a pretty good product to cleanup old files, backups and unused, dormant files. If you made an upgrade to Windows ME from another Windows product (like Windows 98) you may still have it on file. Windows doesn't automatically delete or overlay previous Windows versions anymore.

McAfee is at http://www.mcafee.com/

Also try Norton at http://www.symantec.com/homecomputing/


Good Luck.

[DJ Frisat]

I did a search for freeware tools and found this. Sounds just like what you need...

http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/

Here's a quote from the first few lines of the description...


"Ever wondered why your hard disk is full? Or what directory is taking up most of the space? When using conventional
disk browsing tools, such as Windows Explorer, these questions may be hard to answer. With SequoiaView however, they
can be answered almost immediately. SequoiaView uses a visualization technique called cushion treemaps to provide you
with a single picture of the entire contents of your hard drive. You can use it to locate those large files that you haven't
accessed in one year, or to quickly locate the largest picture files on your drive."

[ThePythonicCow]

sequoiaview

Cool - looks neat.

There are some more such possibilities at totalshareware, under UTILITIES: DISK MANAGEMENT UTILITIES: DISK ANALYSIS UTILITIES .

My favorite of these for the last decade or so has been diskSpace Explorer. It looks like: