Open a file explorer window and right-click on the ‘Name’ field at the top. If you want to see your file sizes permanently, you can easily change a setting to make this possible. You’ll see some additional info there, and part of that is the size of the folder! Information displayed on hover Open your File Explorer to a random location and hover for a second or two over the folder in question. If the locations are on separate physical drives, this will reduce the scan time dramatically.If you want to see the size of your folders, you can actually do so just by hovering over a folder. 'Select Multiple Locations' button to scan multiple locations simultaneously. In order to enable the filter or setup a new one pressing the button again will show the filter settings dialog.Ģ) In order to scan an entire drive select it from the drop-down list and press the Scan button.ģ) In order to scan a single folder press the Scan Folder button. In order to disable the filter press the button again and it will go up and disable filtering. If you exit the dialog with OK it will remain down denoting that filtering is applied. If you press it the filter dialog is displayed in order to setup a new filtering rule. Please note that the filter button (The one with the funnel icon) is a two state button. Additional information is available on our Folder Sizes FAQ page.

At the bottom of the dialog choose if the filter should match Files, Folders or both. Then set filtering based on Name, Size, Attributes and File age. First you have to choose whether the items that match the filter will be included or excluded from the results.

Folder size utility