Every computer user knows that no matter how gigantic your hard drive is, bits, bytes and megabytes of various data will step by step occupy all of it. Modern software and multimedia content have become really greedy in terms of gigabytes. Do you analyze used disk space?

To make matters worse, many applications build temporary and-or system files that may be immense and hard to locate. In many cases they clean up the mess. But as time passes by, more and more non-eliminated trash starts to slow down your computer. And you have to do that again: reinstall Windows, format your disks to have a few months of freedom on your PC.

Besides such extraordinary methods of disk space management, you surely have come across some customary tools to organize and manage files and folders.

Conventional programs are fine as long as you use standard folders and do standard things. The problem with people, though, is that we are not that standard about our hard drive needs. We could get impulsive when we create a folder with a tongue-twisting name. The impulse could go, but the folder we created stays. And that is when conventional programs work badly.

It is not so easy to view directory size. First, you have to find large files and folders and traditional programs make this job surprisingly difficult. It takes ages to view folder size. You may have to manually search around to find files that take the most space on your PC. Sometimes these files are so well hidden, that they are literary impossible to be located.

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