Hard drive mapper windows

You can also expand any folder in the directory list to see its contents. In addition to the free version, TreeSize Professional and TreeSize Personal offer the features of the free version, the ability to export reports of your drive layout, the ability to see additional statistics on file types, ages, and modification dates, command line scanning, and more.

TreeSize Free is, as the name implies, completely free. DaisyDisk is the only Mac utility to make the top five, but it's a great utility.

The app, like most other disk utilities, scans your drive and displays its content in order of what's taking up the most space, but instead of using a treemap, you get a fan-view the developer calls it a "sunburst map," that extends out to the center, with similar files and folders grouped together at the base so you can see how they're organized on the drive. DaisyDisk also lets you clean up large and unwanted files quickly, and analyze multiple disks and drives at the same time.

WinDirStat is free, lightweight, comes in a portable version, and upon startup shows you the contents of your drive in three views: a directory-view, which displays your folder contents organized by how much space they're consuming, an extension list that will show you what's inside of the selected directory and how much of what types of files you're using, and the graphic view at the bottom that highlights the contents of your drive in colored blocks that you can highlight or click on for additional information.

Hover over a group of blocks to see the folder they're in, or select a specific one to see what it is. Now that you've seen the top five, it's time to vote for the all out winner. Honorable mentions this week go out to DiskSpace Fan for Windows, a utility we've mentioned before which offers a similar fan-view of your drives and their contents as DaisyDisk does on the Mac. Have something to say about the contenders that we missed, or did your favorite utility not make the top five?

One great choice for optimization is an older public-domain version 1. Despite its age, it still has all the features anyone could want, including the ability to choose individual files to move for faster access. UltraDefrag is another very capable defragging and optimizing program that you can run from a command prompt if you so desire. In this case you browse and tunnel down into the data on your hard drive by clicking on a graphic that resembles a fan. Even without those features, however, the free version is neat.

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