Folder Size for Windows

laughing at all the recent negative reviews. this app/page hasn't been updated since 2013 and people are angry that it broke after a decade lmao. it still works for what the intention is

Completely dishonest advertising. This does not create a new column in Explorer windows. What happened was, I activated it, it made a bunch of new, external windows spring up for every folder I had open. Then when I closed them, I could not get the program to do anything else ever. Restarted it multiple times. Like clicking on dead pixels.

This does not add column to file explorer as advertised, it opens sub-window which shows the folder sizes, but that gets in the way. More importantly, this site or software appears to have installed MALWARE on my laptop, cause the cursor to randomly start deleting text!

I initially submitted what follows. Boy, I must have been in a daze. I find FolderSize awesome and totally problematic. Until today I ran 5.2.0.3. Installed 5.9.0.5. I hope it is still as good. Still running on Win10. 4 STARS ONLY: With 5.9.0.5 I was hoping I could change the font size for the gui displays. They are just tooooooo small... As to the other 1 star reviews: I have no idea what they are talking about when they mention adding a column in Windows Explorer. 1. that is a crazy idea. It makes the program soooo dependent upon the MANY versions and CHANGES that occur in Windows Explorer. 2: Looks like that "function" has been--and rightfully so--removed! 3: accommodating Windows Explorer changes would be a gargantuan job, probably requiring many version of Folder Size. --------------old review:--------------------- This was wonderful on Windows 7. It created an explorer context menu entry to scan a folder It created an BEAUTIFULLY formatted gui, which had a ton of flexibility and showed all sorts of useful information, including pie charts, and was very customizable. . It was INCREDIBLE. It does almost nothing on Windows 10 except popup a window every time I open explorer. There are no options to analyze subfolders, no nice gui (it is an absurdly childish gui a 3rd grader could write). Totally useless. It's very high overall rating is, today, probably all based on the Pre-win 10 version.

As others stated, the way how folder sizes are shown to you is clumsy. The program automatically resizes itself to the LONGEST file name present in the folder and ALWAYS stays on top, thereby blocking your view with a very large window (More than half a screen) until you resize it manually, both cannot be disabled or changed from available options. You also have ONLY 2 options of sorting folders: Alphabetically from A to Z, and by the largest to smallest file size. You cannot sort folders by Z to A, or by Smallest to Largest file size. Folders also take a few seconds to load in large quantity. Despite all this, "Folder Size for Windows" is a good freeware tool for sorting files out that otherwise would have "gone under the radar" when sorting one-by-one. Simply double-clicking on a folder in this program will automatically open the folder for you.