You can now try this function in the Windows 10 command console to find out what is taking up space on your hard drive

The objective of the Microsoft Windows Insider Program is that through the different existing channels, new functions, additions and improvements can be tried and tested before they reach other users. And one of the possibilities that they are already testing is a new function for the command console

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This is a new tool that helps us discover what content is taking up space on the hard drive of our computer showing the size of folders and drives. A function that goes by the name of DiskUsage."

What takes up space on our hard drive

This way you can get the size of a folder from the command line without using any third party tools. A really handy feature when we're running out of hard disk space and we don't know what programs or files are taking up the storage.

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This is the command DiskUsage, which is located in the path C: \ Windows \ System32 \ diskusage.exe. One utility that does is display the size of a folder on the hard drive. At a glance, you can check which folders occupy a certain space."

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When entering the command console (just type CMD in the search box) and type diskusage/>we will see a series of instructions so that we can apply filters to get a specific result.For example, you can search for folders that are larger than 1 GB with this command:"

Thus, when using DiskUsage, and with this command, we have access to a list with all the folders, including the C: \ Windows folder, that have a larger size to 1 GB.

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Also, we can experiment with other functions, so we can list the main folders in a drive or in a specific folder with the /t=command. The result of the command is this, diskusage /t=5 /h c:\windows), so it displays an ordered list of 5 folders. "

In addition, we can also enumerate the main files in size by means of the command "/u=, leaving for example like this diskusage /u=5 /h c:\windows .

The DiskUsage instruction is still in an early stage of development, so there are aspects that need to be polished This does not mean that we are facing a function that can give a lot of play, especially for those used to using the command console.

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