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In the top left you’ll see a directory tree very much like any other directory tree. The magic, however, is in the display after the analysis is done… While doing so, a clever little animation shows you the progress (you can turn this off in the options if you don’t like clever little animations)… Having done that click on the OK button (at the top of the box, not the bottom where you’d usually find one) and the program runs through the various folders on the disk(s) you selected. When you do, a selection box will pop up and you pick the drive(s) you wish to analyze. Run the installer and then start the program. You get the program from the WinDirStat website which is hosted at SourceForge.
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CKnow has not tested it on Windows 7 and the WinDirStat Web site does not mention Windows 7 but it should work fine and, if not, could be run in compatibility mode back to Windows Vista or even XP if needed. It’s an older program that has not been significantly updated in features but it has been updated to keep up with the various versions of Windows.
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While there are many tools available that can do this, CKnow still likes to use the free program WinDirStat because of its speed and excellent graphical representation of the various file types on a hard disk. This gives you an instant view of what’s taking up the most space on your disk. One of the things you should do to figure out how your hard disk or network drive is organized is to make a list of all of the various file types on the disk and organize that list by file size.