ShowSize

Whenever you want to see how much hard disk space you have left, you can just right click on the desired partition and choose Properties. The problem is that this method doesn't show you too much information about how files are being located on your hard disk. It would be really useful if you could view the size of all the files and spot the file which is largest. To make this possible, you could just install ShowSize.

This Windows application can display complete size information about each folder stored on your hard disk and it also allows you to sort folders from the largest to the smallest. The application can also display the total file size according to specific file formats. For example, you can view the total size of all DLL files located on your C drive.

After the program is installed and launched, it will start scanning your hard disk for file and folder size information. This process can take longer time depending on the size of your hard disk and the number of data stored on each partition. After the scanning process is complete, you will notice that the main interface of ShowSize resembles the one of Windows Explorer. When selecting a folder from the left part of the interface, all the files contained by that folder will be displayed and will be sorted from the largest to the smallest. The same goes for folders, when selecting a specific partition.

You can export the information displayed by the application to various file formats. Still, this feature is only available in the paid version of ShowSize.