It's easy to feel "lost" in your operating system data, but you shouldn't mess with those files unless you know what you're doing. Important: If you scan the system partition (the one that Windows is currently installed) make sure that you don't delete files that are required by your operating system to run. The scan should finish quickly there's a status indicator on the right-corner (up) of the primary software interface. Scan process: The first thing to do after you run SpaceSniffer for the first time is to choose a partition and perform a quick scan (the program will ask you to choose the drive partition or type the path). For those who never used this software before, I will split the action into three categories: scan process, taking action and (optional) saving data. SpaceSniffer will help you to reclaim space in seconds (maybe minutes on large hard drives/partitions). Primary usage: You're here because you probably have no idea where the HDD drive space disappeared, or just want to see if you can delete some occupied space with all kind of files that you forgot, but there are so many that it's time-consuming to review them manually. The current version (1.1.4.0) at the time we wrote this review is tested on Windows 7 Ultimate Edition (32-bit) and Windows 8.0 (64-bit), and it worked well on both Microsoft Windows versions. If your file manager doesn't create (automatically) a folder for you, make sure that you first create one and extract the content of SpaceSniffer archive in it, otherwise, it will extract multiple files, and you'll have to look for "SpaceSniffer.exe." Install: There's no setup file, as this software is delivered as a compressed Zip archive where all you have to do is to extract its content and run the program. You can use the executable file on other Microsoft Windows OS there's no need to extract the archive each time. Therefore it doesn't mess up with your current registry - it just adds an XML configuration file).
SpaceSniffer is fully portable on all modern Microsoft Windows versions (doesn't have a setup file. support for NTFS Alternate Data Streams and so on. fast scan of your hard drive (navigation worked even when the scan didn't finish) customizable options (geometry, colors, behavior) powerful filtering (you can filter your results based on size file name age) zoom elements (browser-like navigation) intuitive structure layout (multiple views for different media) Among the most notable features you'll find: SpaceSniffer is a freeware disk space analyzer for Windows that make use of the Treemap concept to view the current disk usage.
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