DirLot and the full hard drive

I don't know where the "Label" shows up, but this post is labeled "IT"

Have you ever tried to clean the clutter out of a nearly-filled-up hard drive, only to find out that after deleting a bunch of stuff, the hard drive is still nearly full?! Where are the big files?!

Sure, you can wipe out the old internet files and cookies, but did it help? (Did you remember to wipe out all the files from each account on the computer?) I did. Didn't really help. So I looked for a utility, preferably one that worked well, was unobtrusive, and FREE. Found a few things that looked promising, but were either not really free, or just didn't do what I wanted. Then I found a tiny little program that looked good, but I had to "register" first. The registration process bombed (fortunately) so I searched the author and found his site, where you can download the software free, unrestricted, without registration! So I did, it's called DirLot

http://soft.km.ua/soft/dirlot/index.en.html

The zipped download is about 25kB (!) and unzips into a tiny directory structure totaling about 52kB. That's KB not MB!!! It doesn't install anything, it is just an html application (no, I don't really know what that means). When you run it, it displays in color, in your web browser, the relative size of each of the folders and files in a directory. It is very intuitive and easy to use.

My (relatively old) laptop has 18GB HD, and had gotten down to < 1 GB free. I used this program to find large file collections that could safely be deleted, and got down to 9 GB free!!! New Life!! One surprising culprit was the large amounts of Windows Update Uninstall files.

Hope this is useful for you!