Comments on: TreeSize – Free utility to find, view and free up hard disk space

By: Misty Buffum

Misty Buffum — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:34:22 +0000

After doing a scan, how do you know what to toss and what to keep? I scanned it and it said windows was taking 38% of my space up and users being second with 37%. Is there a way to list the files and have some help with cleaning it up?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:51:08 +0000

Sandra, Page file and Hiber.sys are SYSTEM FILES!!!

DO NOT DELETE THESE

Page file – The search index for your computer, keeps a record of file location and contents (You can turn this off if you want, but it will result in Snail speed searches on your PC)

Hiber.sys – Do you ever hibernate your computer?
Ever wonder how it works?
^
Your PC cannot use RAM, or temporary memory to save it, because RAM clears every time your PC shuts down, so Windows saves everything you are doing in this file.

If you do not use hibernate, Turn it off.
(Google search “Turn off hibernation”)

Sources
Me, an IT Professional

By: Sandra

Sandra — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:06:59 +0000

Thank you for this. I am running out of disk space on my hard drive and used TreeSize to figure out what it was. However, I don’t understand how to remove these files.

Something called Page File and hiber.sys. These are taking up a couple of GBs. Help.

By: Ximena

Ximena — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:10:00 +0000

I agree with this article, TreeSize is the best program for finding out where all your disk space is being used up. It’s not fancy, but it really is easy to use and it can be run from a portable USB stick!

By: Luzi

Luzi — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:14:43 +0000

This is by far the most efficient tool to locate your space wasters (the tool’s age is a proof of its usefulness in this particular case…):

w3.win.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/onderzoek_informatica/visualization/sequoiaview//

By: Kev

Kev — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:49:15 +0000

I use another program which has nicer charts and does everything else I need, and is slightly cheaper to boot:

ketara.ca/folder-sizes-disk-space.html

By: Kristian

Kristian — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:35:53 +0000

Another way of cleaning your computer from junk is to use a duplicate file finder like Clone Tools.

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By: akishore

akishore — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:22:41 +0000

Hi Jeff,

Do you have Easy CD Creator installed on your computer? If so, you may have to uninstall it and get the latest version. Some of the older versions cause this problem. If that doesn’t work, try downloading the latest driver for your CD/DVD ROM device from the computer manufacturer’s web site.

Thanks!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:21:31 +0000

I downloaded TreeSize but when I try to scan my D drive I get the following error message: “Path D:\: Incorrect Function”. Any suggestions?