nsadictionary.blogg.se - Windirstat what to delete

With that in mind, you will not want to let this application out of your hands and into the hands of your end users. In the hands of the wrong user, WinDirStat could easily help someone delete precious system files that would render the machine unbootable. The other issue isn't really a product of WinDirStat, but of possible user error. The minute you try to create your own user-configured cleanup routines you will quickly experience a complete lack of documentation, which makes the task rather challenging, if not impossible. The biggest issue with WinDirStat is the documentation.

Zoom into color-coded block and easily delete files.

Color-coded map of each extension on the drive.

Percentage of space each extension takes up.

With the results of this audit, you can easily determine what is using up the bulk of your hard disk space and act upon that knowledge. WinDirStat quickly and easily audits a machines physical hard drive and reports back what is taking up the space on the drive. For that reason, WinDirStat is for anyone (from user to administrator) who needs to be able to do quick audits on the contents of their machines. WinDirStat reads the entire directory tree of your Windows machine and reports back exactly what it is that is taking up that space on your drive. WinDirStat is for any Windows user who needs to gather exhaustive statistics about what is installed on their machines.

Operating system: Supports Windows 95 through Windows 7.

Storage: Small, can be run from flash drive.

However, WinDirStat will do all of this leg work for you. That, of course, is simply not an efficient means to what should be a simple end.

I could have simply dug around the hard drive and checked every file for size and tracked them with a spreadsheet. With that choice in hand, I had an obvious task - find out what types of files were causing the backup to grow so large. The obvious choice (for the client) was to weed out files that were taking up too much space.

The client had two choices, get a larger external drive or reduce the number of files included in the backup. In some instances that may be a fine backup solution, but this particular client wanted to have multiple backups saved.

As you can imagine, Acronis was only allowing us to fit a single backup on their 500GB external drive. Recently I had a client whose file backup had reached over 400GB.