You can view the size of folders by hovering over the folders in Windows Explorer as shown below :. The primary reason why the Windows UI does not provide this functionality is performance. Every time you navigate through a folder structure in Windows Explorer, the OS would have to perform a recursive scan of the subfolder structure within each folder to get the file and folder sizes and add them up.
Though this feature works fine for smaller folders it's pretty useless for larger ones. Actually, it's probably best to disable this feature altogether to improve performance when using Explorer.
This feature has been known to cause lengthy delays when browsing certain folders like those on a network. This feature is enabled by default in Windows 7 and can be turned on or off via Explorer's menu by clicking Organize - Folder and search options - View tab - display file size information in folder tips screenshot below. Still, none of the above methods for calculating folder sizes provides a simple and quick way to help you find the folders that are taking up the majority of disk space on your local drive or network.
For this reason Folder Size Explorer was created as a freeware application. Folder Size Explorer is a simple Windows Explorer clone that displays the file system items exactly as Explorer would except with the added option to calculate folder sizes. It also provides columns for folder count, file count and file checksums calculations should you need them. The folder size calculation can be enabled or disabled quickly by clicking an icon on the toolbar. You can change the size notation of the size column in Explorer with the click of a button from bytes to megabytes, kilobytes or gigabytes.
During the folder size calculation it allows you to press escape or cancel at any time to stop the scanning so as to quickly display the standard folder and file items.
You can also press the skip button to skip the size calculation of a particular folder that is taking too long to calcualte and move on to the next. Have relied on Belarc Advisor a really great tool as well for years but this is something that has seemed to be missing on many ocassions.
Microsoft deliberately makes finding folders and sizes difficult. That is why their search takes so long and they do not display folder sizes. Welcome to the world of big brother computing. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam.
Learn how your comment data is processed. When it comes to hard disk space we always want to know which folders on our hard drives are taking the larger space, but windows explorer by default does not display the folder size, however there has been a tool released some time back called Folder Size which adds an extra column in windows explorer which displays the folder size but it work with windows XP only So, there is no tool which can integrate a folder size column in windows explorer in windows 7 and vista, but still there are some other alternatives to find out large sized folder on your computer hard drive.
Some Other Key Features Sort option based on all the different criteria listed above — folder name, folder size etc. Option to rearrange the columns in the list in order to suit your preferences.
Option to display the file and folder sizes in Bytes, Kilobytes, Megabytes, Gigabytes or automatically determine the most appropriate size format. Locate selected folder or file in Windows Explorer via a context menu Show Windows folder or file properties dialog Delete folders or files. Open files with associated application using double click.
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