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See where your disk space went with Spacemonger

July 21st, 2008 by Chuck Sharp

This may be the best secret I’ve shared on this site, because you can benefit from it in five minutes. I’ve used the free Spacemonger program for several years now, and it’s usefulness is unparalleled. It does a simple thing: it graphically shows you how much of your disk is used by what. See this example screenshot:

This is just incredibly useful. You can maximize the window for greatest detail and see at a glance where the disk space is being used. You can drill down into a directory, and if you right click on a directory, you can open it in Windows Explorer for file management. By being able to see the size of files, especially relative to each other and the disk as a whole, it can easily help you answer questions that are otherwise perplexing.

Note that there is a newer version of this program, but it’s shareware and requires a paid registration. I personally don’t need any more functionality then what’s in this version, but to each his own.

Download Spacemonger 1.4

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