As you can see in the previous figures, there are several icons in the taskbar at the top of the window. However, there are other ways to view the data. TreeSize’s default behavior is to express each folder’s size as a percentage of the total space that has been consumed on the disk. Over half of this machine’s data is located in the C:\Windows\WinSXS folder. This means there is a lot of data that is being stored in C:\Windows\WinSXS, but not in its subfolders. Additionally, none of the subfolders beneath the WinSXS folder contains more than 3.9% of the total volume of data residing on C. If you look at Figure 2, for instance, you can see that I have expanded a few folders and found that over half of the data on this machine’s C: drive resides in the C:\Windows\WinSXS folder. You break this down further by expanding folders. The Windows folder is listed as 84.1%, meaning that just over 84% of the C: drive’s contents are in the Windows folder or in one of its subfolders. Just beneath the C: drive is the Windows folder. While that statement seems completely obvious, it is an important concept because it extends to all of the subfolders. This does not mean that the C: drive is completely full (it isn’t), but rather that 100% of the data residing in the C: drive resides in either the root directory or one of its subfolders.
You will also notice that the C: drive is listed as being 100% allocated. This is the output generated by running TreeSize on Windows Server 2019.Īs you look at the screen capture shown above, you will notice that the C: drive is selected. Upon launching TreeSize, it automatically scanned the server’s hard drive and presented me with the screen shown in Figure 1. Within a matter of a few minutes, I managed to locate several things that I could remove from my PC to reclaim some of my lost disk space.įor the purposes of this article, I installed TreeSize on a Windows Server 2019 machine that was running a lab deployment of Azure AD Connect. I found TreeSize to be very lightweight, easy to use and, most importantly, effective. I initially downloaded TreeSize because my primary desktop computer was running low on storage space and I needed to figure out where my disk space had gone. The software seems to work just as well on Windows Server as it does on Windows 10 machines. TreeSize is likely designed for use on Windows 10, but out of curiosity I also tried installing it on Windows Server 2019. Fortunately, there is a free tool that does a great job of helping you to figure out how your storage space is being used and what you might be able to do to reclaim some of that space. The available space just seems to decrease over time, even if you are not doing anything that seems like it should consume a lot of space.
It’s amazing just how quickly storage space can be depleted in a Windows environment.
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