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

I recommend the FREE Folder Size by MindGems. It provides even better results than the commercial tools listed above and is not cluttered with nonsense data. The most important things for me are the accurate results that it provides, while I can not say that for other similar tools.

Answer 3

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 4

A less graphic tool is "TreeSize Free":

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

Answer 5

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 6

SequoiaView can also provide the same functionality as WinDirStat.