The disks of our PCs and laptops are no less than a box of Pandora. Before we realize, the disks get full of obsolete or no longer required files. Then, we have to sit down and spend much time clearing the space for important files and documents. It will be easier to see the disk usage at one glance and decide what can be removed. You can do so with the help of Filelight app. You can now see your disk usage statistics with the help of visually user-friendly applications. Here is a small write-up on this application.
Filelight app for Windows PC
Filelight is a free Disk Space Analyzer software for Windows available on Microsoft Store. This application helps you visualize the disk usage statistics. The statistic in the ‘sunburst’ form lets you understand exactly where your disk space is being used quickly.
The disk usage statistics are displayed graphically as a set of concentric segmented rings. You can use them to locate hotspots of disk usage and then make changes to those areas using a file manager.
This application is approximately 180MB in size. Once downloaded, you can pin it to the Task Bar or Start Menu. The Filelight application icon will then appear.
Using Filelight app to see the disk usage statistics
Click on the Filelight icon to launch it. When you open the application, you can see donut pie charts for each drive on your PC or laptop.
To see detailed disk usage statistics, click on each pie chart. The application starts scanning all the files on your system and comes up with the following ‘sunburst’ form of the graphic display.
Please note that scanning all the files on your PC and rendering the graphical disk usage statistics takes a while. This time depends on the number of files present on your disk.
To know which files are taking up your disk, hover over each color and see the details regarding the selected drive. For example, in the above image, the pink part shows the disk space of Program Files on C Drive. It also displays the number of files this drive consists of and the share of the Program Files on the total disk space on your PC. It also displays the major file names inside the Program files as spikes. If you hover over each of these spikes, you will get more information about each folder inside Program Files.
You can click on these spikes to see more details in that folder. Thus, this application allows you to analyze even the smallest of the folders.
Tabs within the Filelight application
Besides viewing the disk usage statistics, you can also see various tabs at the top of the window, such as Scan, View, Go, Settings and Help.
Click on the Scan tab to scan a particular folder, home folder, or root folder or rescan already scanned folders or drives.
Click View to zoom in or out of the resultant graphic of the disk usage statistics.
Once the graphical disk usage statistics are rendered, you can click on each part of the graphic to see the details. In the Go tab, you can switch between the results using the Up, Back, and Forward options.
The Setting tab lets you select the tabs on Toolbar, Configure Shortcuts, Configure Toolbar and Configure Filelight application. If you wish to skip some of the folders from scanning, click the Configure Filelight option in the Settings tab. Then select the Scanning tab. Click the Add button and select the folder you don’t wish to be scanned.
You can also remove the folder from this list. In the Settings window, you can also change the Appearance of the Filelight application. Click Reset to remove the changes you made under the Settings tab.
This application is user-friendly and intuitive. The graphical representation of the disk usage statistics is unique and has a good look and feel.
Download this application from Microsoft Store and let us know your view on it.
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