Your IT Consultant

Information Technology Blog
by John W. Simek, Vice President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc.

What’s Eating Up All Your Hard Drive Space?

April 25, 2023

We tend not to be concerned about the available space for our storage devices until there is very little left. We take pictures endlessly until we get a warning that our phone storage is getting full. Our computer pops a warning when the available space gets below a certain threshold. What can we do when your gets starts to get full? Having an inside view as to what’s taking up the storage space would be helpful.

How-To Geek has a post talking about four free tools to analyze hard drive space. “These tools are different from disk cleaning applications, which automatically remove temporary and cache files. An analyzer will just scan your drive and give you a better view of what’s using space, so you can clear up disk space.” In other words, you won’t know what to delete or uninstall if you don’t know it’s there. The post discusses:

Once you run the utility, you can decide which applications to uninstall and/or which files/folders to delete. If you decide to uninstall applications, check the installation folders to see if any data is left behind after the uninstall process.

Email:   Phone: 703.359.0700
Digital Forensics/Cybersecurity/Information Technology
https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnsimek
https://amazon.com/author/johnsimek
https://senseient.com