the kiZZ notes » defraggler http://kizzx2.com/blog random stupid ideas from a narcissistic chode Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:25:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 missing hard-disk space? – the answer! http://kizzx2.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/10/missing-hard-disk-space-the-answer/ http://kizzx2.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/10/missing-hard-disk-space-the-answer/#comments Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:30:57 +0000 kiZZ kiZZ http://kizzx2.com/blog/?p=144 Many of us Windows users have experienced the frustrating mysteries – we find our hard-disks shrinking and shrinking after some period of usage. Emptying the recycle bin didn’t solve the mystery, neither did clearing the TEMP folder.

Here I’ll present two amazing, freeware products from Piriform

CCleaner

This program is an excellent clean up utility. As far as I have tested it myself, this is unlike many other products which try to delete as many files as they could to make them sound useful. CCleaner performs safe operations and I haven’t broken my computer with it. On my first time use, it discovered and recovered more than 1GB of my hard disk space!

Defraggler

Another freeware product from the same company. Defraggler is originally intented to use as a defragmentation tool, but it surprisingly served extremely well at discovering large chunk of mysterious files that choke up precious disk space. One unique feature this piece of software has is the ability to defrag individual files. And the Analyzer is blazing fast too – it analyzed my 80GB drive in less than 10 seconds. Then I switched to the File list, and I can immediately sort by file size to find out the biggest files on my disk!

df3

Seasoned users might say this cygwin command accomplishes the same result:

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du . 2>/dev/null | sort -nr | less

But that would probably take 10 minutes instead of 10 seconds!

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