win 7 home prem pie chart?

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thewiz

As I am filling up my "C" drive I remembered there used to be a free
program that would show a pie chart with what is taking up space on the
hard drive.
Does anybody know what that is called or where I could find a like program?
Thank you for any help.
 
V

VanguardLH

thewiz said:
As I am filling up my "C" drive I remembered there used to be a free
program that would show a pie chart with what is taking up space on the
hard drive.
Does anybody know what that is called or where I could find a like program?
Thank you for any help.
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Remembered how far back? Back to which version of Windows?

PC Magazine has their Disk Pie utility but they stopped making free
their utilities. While they claim their utilities are free, you have to
pay (annually subscribe) to *access* those "free" utilities. Since
access is not free then neither are their utilities.

Perhaps you're thinking of TreeSize Free by Jam Software. That shows a
hierarchical (tree) list of folders (and optionally files) to show you
which ones consume the most disk space.

Another is WinDirStat if you're into eyecandy. It tries to show disk
consumption as a bunch of blobs in a disk map. I find it not as useful
as having a list with numbers.

System requirements:
TreeSize : Windows 8/7/Vista/XP
Windows Server 2012/2008/2003
(32 or 64 Bit)
WinDirStat: Windows 95 (IE5), Windows 98 SE, Windows ME, Windows NT4
(SP5), Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003,
Windows Vista, and Windows 7
(No mention of both 32- and 64-bit are supported)

I'm sure the alt.comp.freeware newsgroup would have other suggestions.
Just be prepared to ignore or filter out a lot of noise over there.
 
1

123Jim

As I am filling up my "C" drive I remembered there used to be a free
program that would show a pie chart with what is taking up space on the
hard drive.
Does anybody know what that is called or where I could find a like program?
Thank you for any help.
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Pie chart no, but this is what I've been using this:
http://windirstat.info/
"The treemap represents each file as a colored rectangle, the area of
which is proportional to the file's size. The rectangles are arranged in
such a way, that directories again make up rectangles, which contain all
their files and subdirectories. So their area is proportional ..... ......"
 
E

Ed Cryer

thewiz said:
As I am filling up my "C" drive I remembered there used to be a free
program that would show a pie chart with what is taking up space on the
hard drive.
Does anybody know what that is called or where I could find a like program?
Thank you for any help.
Click to expand...
Better than a pie chart is a cushioned tree-map view of the drive.
And in my opinion Sequoiaview has never been beaten;
http://w3.win.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/onderzoek_informatica/visualization/sequoiaview//

Look at this map of my C drive;
http://tinyurl.com/agv9c9c
Windows on the left through Program Files, Users, to pagefile and
hibernation file; and when you run your cursor over it, it displays the
file name covered in a box.

I've solved problems and questions using it in seconds.

Ed
 
D

dweebken

Pie chart no, but this is what I've been using this:
http://windirstat.info/
"The treemap represents each file as a colored rectangle, the area of
which is proportional to the file's size. The rectangles are arranged in
such a way, that directories again make up rectangles, which contain all
their files and subdirectories. So their area is proportional ..... ......"
Click to expand...
+1 on WinDirStat, I use it heaps
 
A

Ant

+1 on WinDirStat, I use it heaps
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Ditto. Too bad it hasn't been updated recently. :(
--
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| |o o| |
\ _ / If crediting, then use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link.
( ) If e-mailing, then axe ANT from its address if needed.
Ant is currently not listening to any songs on this computer.
 
B

BeeJ

Ed Cryer pretended :
Better than a pie chart is a cushioned tree-map view of the drive.
And in my opinion Sequoiaview has never been beaten;
http://w3.win.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/onderzoek_informatica/visualization/sequoiaview//

Look at this map of my C drive;
http://tinyurl.com/agv9c9c
Windows on the left through Program Files, Users, to pagefile and hibernation
file; and when you run your cursor over it, it displays the file name covered
in a box.

I've solved problems and questions using it in seconds.

Ed
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More art than info?
 
S

Stan Brown

As I am filling up my "C" drive I remembered there used to be a free
program that would show a pie chart with what is taking up space on the
hard drive.
Does anybody know what that is called or where I could find a like program?
Click to expand...


Yes, it's called "Windows". :)

Double-click Computer, right-click on the desired drive and select
Properties
 
C

Char Jackson

Yes, it's called "Windows". :)

Double-click Computer, right-click on the desired drive and select
Properties
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I don't think that's going to be of much use in telling the OP "what
is taking up space on the hard drive." :)
 
I

Ian Jackson

Sjouke said:
http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/
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When the thread started, I knew I had this somewhere - and was going to
suggest it if only I could find it (still can't). It's fairly useful
(and runs from its own stand-alone EXE file), but obviously WinDirStat
is the best.

I see I've also got Spacemonger (rather like WinDirStat) Warning - the
colours are horrible! Not sure if it works in >XP (only says
W95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP).
http://www.aplusfreeware.com/categories/LFWV/SpaceMonger.html
 
T

thewiz

Thank you all. I am a happy camper now and my drive is lean and mean. I was
surprised what files were taking up all that space.
 
J

J. P. Gilliver (John)

thewiz said:
Thank you all. I am a happy camper now and my drive is lean and mean. I was
surprised what files were taking up all that space.
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Go on, share!
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Today, I dare say more people know who starred as /The Vicar of Dibley/ than
know the name of the vicar of their local parish. - Clive Anderson, Radio
Times 15-21 January 2011.
 
T

thewiz

OK, I have a tremendous music library and was blaming the space used on
programs.
My programs actually take up very little space compared to my music.
I moved my music to an external USB drive and it seems to work just fine
now.
Go on, share!
 
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