This is the output generated by running TreeSize on Windows Server 2019.Īs you look at the screen capture shown above, you will notice that the C: drive is selected. Upon launching TreeSize, it automatically scanned the server’s hard drive and presented me with the screen shown in Figure 1. Within a matter of a few minutes, I managed to locate several things that I could remove from my PC to reclaim some of my lost disk space.įor the purposes of this article, I installed TreeSize on a Windows Server 2019 machine that was running a lab deployment of Azure AD Connect. I found TreeSize to be very lightweight, easy to use and, most importantly, effective. I initially downloaded TreeSize because my primary desktop computer was running low on storage space and I needed to figure out where my disk space had gone.
The software seems to work just as well on Windows Server as it does on Windows 10 machines. TreeSize is likely designed for use on Windows 10, but out of curiosity I also tried installing it on Windows Server 2019. Fortunately, there is a free tool that does a great job of helping you to figure out how your storage space is being used and what you might be able to do to reclaim some of that space. The available space just seems to decrease over time, even if you are not doing anything that seems like it should consume a lot of space. I'm far from the "microsoft people" that you describe, lol.It’s amazing just how quickly storage space can be depleted in a Windows environment.
(All this is typed up on my Librebooted ThinkPad T430 running Fedora 35 over a TP-Link Archer C7 router running OpenWRT, paired with my phone running Lineage OS. The only thing we can strive to do is to make the FOSS alternative better, if we want it to actually succeed. I'm a vagrant supporter of FOSS but even I know that most people don't care about it if the FOSS alternative sucks. Essentially, I was asking why WinDirStat appears to be seemingly circumventing "the norm".Īdditionally, keep in mind that I'm not attacking FOSS. The whole point of me starting this conversation is because WinDirStat didn't seem to offer anything over the proprietary alternative.
See: Audacity/Ardour vs Adobe Suite, Darktable vs Lightroom, OBS Studio vs (every other streaming software), Windows Media Player vs VLC/mpv It only ever really matters when the FOSS alternative either reaches feature parity or becomes better than the proprietary one. See: kdenlive vs Resolve/Adobe Suite, LibreOffice vs MS Office, GIMP vs Photoshop, Inkscape vs Illustrator. A piece of software being FOSS doesn't really matter if it lags behind the competition, either in functionality or UX.
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