Comments on: Free Disk Usage Analyzer… http://whatsonmypc.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/free-disk-usage-analyzer/ Learning Information Technology - a byte at a time! Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:19:27 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: whatsonmypc http://whatsonmypc.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/free-disk-usage-analyzer/#comment-490 whatsonmypc Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:23:26 +0000 http://whatsonmypc.wordpress.com/?p=2927#comment-490 TechPaul, Thanks for the nice comment(s)... Readers out there; listen to this Tech and learn... Rick TechPaul,

Thanks for the nice comment(s)… Readers out there; listen to this Tech and learn…

Rick

]]> By: techpaul http://whatsonmypc.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/free-disk-usage-analyzer/#comment-489 techpaul Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:59:29 +0000 http://whatsonmypc.wordpress.com/?p=2927#comment-489 Rick, always glad to come and read your articles each day. I have a thumb drive I keep on my keychain configured with the wonderful Portable Apps, http://portableapps.com/, (of which, WinDirStat is a download) which I use as a "tech toolkit" of sorts, for when I visit friends and family, and they ask me to "look at their computer real quick".. (Sounds like you do, too) These types of utilities are -- as you clearly state -- quite useful in that they help folks who don't happen to be Computer Science Majors "see" how it is that their "huge" hard drive is full (all of a sudden). <strong>You are absolutely correct, the average user has no clue about file management.</strong> Nor do they seem to realize that <em>each program they install</em> merely 'bloats' what the operating system has to keep track of, can cause a conflict with existing programs, probably increases boot time and consumes RAM, adds another vector for a hacker to try to exploit.. sigh. As a tech, I see it everyday.. three tax programs <em>and</em> two different accounting programs, half a dozen 'media players', 3-to-12 browser toolbars, both Outlook <em>and</em> Thunderbird.. 6 photo editors.. Your opening sentence really and truly needs to be "shouted from the rooftops". In computers, you want lean. As lean as possible. One last hint for your readers (should they want to start deleting files); set a Restore Point <em>before</em> you begin. http://techpaul.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/my-favorite-life-saver-flavor-system-restore/ Keep it up, Rick. You got top-drawer stuff here! Rick, always glad to come and read your articles each day.
I have a thumb drive I keep on my keychain configured with the wonderful Portable Apps, http://portableapps.com/, (of which, WinDirStat is a download) which I use as a “tech toolkit” of sorts, for when I visit friends and family, and they ask me to “look at their computer real quick”..
(Sounds like you do, too)

These types of utilities are — as you clearly state — quite useful in that they help folks who don’t happen to be Computer Science Majors “see” how it is that their “huge” hard drive is full (all of a sudden). You are absolutely correct, the average user has no clue about file management.
Nor do they seem to realize that each program they install merely ‘bloats’ what the operating system has to keep track of, can cause a conflict with existing programs, probably increases boot time and consumes RAM, adds another vector for a hacker to try to exploit.. sigh. As a tech, I see it everyday.. three tax programs and two different accounting programs, half a dozen ‘media players’, 3-to-12 browser toolbars, both Outlook and Thunderbird.. 6 photo editors..

Your opening sentence really and truly needs to be “shouted from the rooftops”. In computers, you want lean. As lean as possible.

One last hint for your readers (should they want to start deleting files); set a Restore Point before you begin.
http://techpaul.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/my-favorite-life-saver-flavor-system-restore/

Keep it up, Rick. You got top-drawer stuff here!

]]> By: whatsonmypc http://whatsonmypc.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/free-disk-usage-analyzer/#comment-487 whatsonmypc Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:15:30 +0000 http://whatsonmypc.wordpress.com/?p=2927#comment-487 Paul, WinDirStat is good one... I currently have it on my flash drive... Thanks for pointing the readers to it. Rick Paul,

WinDirStat is good one… I currently have it on my flash drive… Thanks for pointing the readers to it.

Rick

]]> By: techpaul http://whatsonmypc.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/free-disk-usage-analyzer/#comment-486 techpaul Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:34:26 +0000 http://whatsonmypc.wordpress.com/?p=2927#comment-486 Rick-- Your readers who are looking for this kind of tool might like the one I find handy -- WinDirStat has a graphic representation (as well as "detail" view) and allows you to delete, copy, etc. from inside it.. it's a freebie as well. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=91252&package_id=96219 There's a portable version too, available on Portable Apps Rick–
Your readers who are looking for this kind of tool might like the one I find handy — WinDirStat has a graphic representation (as well as “detail” view) and allows you to delete, copy, etc. from inside it.. it’s a freebie as well.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=91252&package_id=96219

There’s a portable version too, available on Portable Apps

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