Windows explorer folder size

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Drag the Folder Size column header to where Size used to be.

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Right click on the column headers and uncheck the Size column. Now we can replace the existing Size column with the new Folder Size column.Right click on the column headers to see a list of columns you can add.Does not work on Windows Vista and XP.Īfter you download and install the installer, you will not see the folder sizes. Folder Size for Windows runs on Windows 2000 and higher, and has been tested almost exclusively on Windows XP. This is useful to find the largest folder eating up storage space on your computer. The new column is added to the Details view in Windows Explorer, and displays the size of folder including all subfolders.

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And my wish came true when I found this wonderful sourceforge project called Folder Size for Windows.

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It Windows Explorer can show size of files, sortable by size, why not folders. How can you see the folder size in Windows in explorer vie? How many times I have opened the Windows Explorer or My Documents and wondered – why Windows does not show the size of folders?.