DiskUsage Tool in Windows 10 DiskUsage is a new disk space analyzer app that scans your device drives and folder and shows you advance details about how much space they are consuming. You might be wondering, how it’s useful, right? Suppose your device is out of storage space and you want to figure out what drive or directly is eating up most of the space. Earlier, Windows OS doesn’t offer a similar feature, but with new DiskUsage tool users will be able to find advanced analytics DiskUsage tool location in Windows 10 is this: C:\Windows\System32\diskusage.exe.
How to Use DiskUsage tool in Windows 10
In case, you’re looking for similar disk analyzer tool for Windows 10 for a long time and would like to try it, then here’s how you can do that: Make sure, you’re running Windows 10 build 21277 or above. Launch Command Prompt with admin rights. When UAC dialog appears, click Yes to continue. Next, you need to copy-paste this command: diskusage /minFileSize=1073741824 /h c:\windows and hit enter. Doing this will show you advanced details about folders whose size is more than 1GB. Keep in mind that, 1073741824 equals to 1GB. Similarly, if you want to look for drive more than 2GB in size, then replace 1073741824 with 2147483648 in above command. Apart from this, there are lots of other options that users can find out by executing this command: diskusage /? This will show you a list of all references for supported options: C:\WINDOWS\system32>diskusage /?DiskUsage - Disk Usage Description: Summarize disk usage recursively for the given directory.Usage : diskusage [Options] [Directory]Options :/a, /systemAndReserve displays size for system files and reserved space/c, /csv displays in csv format/d, /maxDepth=N displays directory information only if it is N orfewer levels below command line argument/e, /minFileSize=SIZE displays directory information only if its FileSizeis greater or equal than SIZE/f, /minSizeOnDisk=SIZE displays directory information only if its SizeOnDiskis greater or equal than SIZE/g, /displayFlag=FLAG specifies the flags value to determin which column(s) to displaycolumn value descriptionSizeOnDisk 0x001 the on disk sizeFileSize 0x002 the end of file sizeSizePerDir 0x004 sum of SizeOnDisk for top level childFiles 0x008 number of child filesChildDirs 0x010 number of child directoriesFilesPerDir 0x020 number of top level child filesDirsPerDir 0x040 number of top level child directoriesCreationTime 0x080 file creation timestampLastAccessTime 0x100 file last access timestampLastWriteTime 0x200 file last write timestampAttributes 0x400 file attributes/h, /humanReadable displays size in human readable format/i, /iniFile=FILE takes all the parameters from an INI file.NOTE: SCENARIO name must be speificed via /j (/scenario)/j, /secnario=SCENARIO specifies the scenario name for the INI file/l, /allLinks count all hardlinks separately (By default, files with multiplehardlinks are counted only once towards the first link name)/m, /multipleName count only files with more than one link names/n, /nameFilter=FILTER count only files whose name matches the name filter/p, /preferredPath=PATH count files with multiple link names towards the first link that’sunder PATH if it existsNOTE: This options must not be specified togertherwith /l (/allLinks)/q, /virtual recurse into virtual directories/r, /skipReparse skip recursing into reparse directories/s, /skipResurse skip recursing into child directories when calculating sizes/t, /TopDirectory=N displays Top N directories by SizeOnDisk in descending order/u, /TopFile=N displays Top N files by SizeOnDisk in descending order/v, /verbose displays verbose error information/x, /clearDefault do not display the default selected columns As of writing this blog post, the feature is under development, so don’t expect flawless experience too early. Are you excited by addition of DiskUsage tool in Windows 10? We would like to hear your opinion in the comments.
