How to find the ten largest files in Windows 7?

Question

How can I find the ten largest files on the D: drive in Windows 7? Any quick commands?

Answer 1

The following in PowerShell should suffice:

Get-ChildItem -Recurse D:\ -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue |
    Sort -Descending Length |
    Select -First 10

or shorter:

gci -r D:\ -ea 0 | sort Length -desc | select -f 10

Answer 2

Try WinDirStat

WinDirStat reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in three useful views:

• The directory list, which resembles the tree view of the Windows Explorer but is sorted by file/subtree size,
• The treemap, which shows the whole contents of the directory tree straight away,
• The extension list, which serves as a legend and shows statistics about the file types.

Answer 3

JDiskReport Works a lot like WinDirStat, but presents a friendlier pie chart. It also supports listing the "Top 100" in several categories, including size. The only caveat is that it requires Java, but if you already have Java, I really recommend it.

Answer 4

SequoiaView can also provide the same functionality as WinDirStat.

Answer 5

A less graphic tool is "TreeSize Free":

It's bigger brother, "TreeSize Professional", can however do graphics: