What app can i use to track disk space?

I dont know what is going on but my disk space seems to be going down and i am not downloading anything. What app can i use on windows to keep track of diskspace? I used windirstat which tells you how much data a folder is holding but i still cant figure out the problem.

I did notice a folder holding 1.7gb for visual studio's intellitrack (or whatever that thing is called)

-edit- Today i found it has taken up 7gb (weird, after deleting i only have 4gb and i can see in windirstat that it says 7gb). My HDD actually hit 0bytes left on the C drive.

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft Visual Studio\10.0\TraceDebugging

user3109

Posted 2010-06-09T23:01:30.590

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1What exactly do you want to know about your disk space, other than what folders are using it up? – David Z – 2010-06-09T23:37:12.080

1It's InteliSense, not IntelliTrack :) – squircle – 2010-06-10T00:02:56.010

Have a look at http://superuser.com/questions/10820/how-to-find-disk-usage-of-folders-in-windows http://superuser.com/questions/8248/best-program-to-visualize-file-system-usage-on-windows http://superuser.com/questions/22595/whats-using-up-my-disk-space http://superuser.com/questions/61880/windows-7-mysteriously-missing-free-hdd-space/

– Sathyajith Bhat – 2010-06-10T00:58:29.147

You might gain some insight by running ccleaner, and just having it analyze, not clean. It's possible that temporary files, internet cache, etc. are taking up quite a bit of space. – nhinkle – 2010-06-10T03:11:13.083

Actually its IntelliTrace not InteliSense. – None – 2010-06-15T06:29:35.463

IntelliTrace and IntelliSense are two different features of the same product. – Hello71 – 2010-07-09T21:22:32.660

1IntelliTrace helps debugging (not sure exactly how). IntelliSense is an auto-completer for names (classes, namespaces, methods, properties). – Hello71 – 2010-07-09T21:23:37.383

@Hello71: yep. And i found a monster2gb folder with IntelliTrace information. Not exactly something you'd see IntelliSense do. – None – 2010-07-11T04:48:00.397

All of these answers measure disk space, but none of them track disk space. I'm constantly running out and I want to know which folders have exploded since yesterday, not just which folders are biggest – endolith – 2019-12-08T15:44:01.630

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I would highly advise using WinDirStat. It gives a visual and statistical overview of which files are taking up space. Large files are shown as larger blocks, and they are color coded by file type. It also tells you what percentage of the hard drive space each directory is taking up. Very useful, and free, too!

win dir stat main screen

nhinkle

Posted 2010-06-09T23:01:30.590

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Space Sniffer has won awards, and I love it, after trying WinDirStat and some other big ones...My favorite thing about it, is that it constantly refreshes, so when I delete something, it updates the display right away...

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