Display File Count and Subfolder size in Windows Explorer

I use FolderSize on a server at work to administrate more effectively. It's essentially a Windows Explorer plugin that allows you to display folder-children, both files and folders along with their size.

http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/


This isn't possible using the default Windows Explorer, you would need some sort of plugin that aggregates this information (or check them manually). You can, however, get this information from a Command Shell (albeit not in a pretty way) via "dir /S". Run "dir /?" for other options. For example:

C:\Users\Josh\Temp\apache-ant-1.8.1>dir /S
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is D819-69BC

 Directory of C:\Users\Josh\Temp\apache-ant-1.8.1

09/06/2010  06:07 PM    <DIR>          .
09/06/2010  06:07 PM    <DIR>          ..
09/06/2010  06:06 PM    <DIR>          bin
09/06/2010  06:07 PM    <DIR>          docs
09/06/2010  06:07 PM    <DIR>          etc
04/30/2010  06:03 PM             7,920 fetch.xml
04/30/2010  06:03 PM             4,566 get-m2.xml
04/30/2010  06:03 PM               128 INSTALL
04/30/2010  06:03 PM            77,892 KEYS
09/06/2010  06:08 PM    <DIR>          lib
04/30/2010  06:03 PM            15,561 LICENSE
04/30/2010  06:03 PM               224 NOTICE
04/30/2010  06:03 PM             4,216 README
04/30/2010  06:03 PM           197,028 WHATSNEW
               8 File(s)        307,535 bytes

 Directory of C:\Users\Josh\Temp\apache-ant-1.8.1\bin

09/06/2010  06:06 PM    <DIR>          .
09/06/2010  06:06 PM    <DIR>          ..
04/30/2010  06:02 PM             9,997 ant
04/30/2010  06:02 PM             7,706 ant.bat
04/30/2010  06:02 PM             2,857 ant.cmd
04/30/2010  06:02 PM             3,410 antenv.cmd
04/30/2010  06:02 PM               861 antRun
04/30/2010  06:02 PM             1,536 antRun.bat
04/30/2010  06:02 PM             2,199 antRun.pl
04/30/2010  06:02 PM             3,219 complete-ant-cmd.pl
04/30/2010  06:02 PM             4,315 envset.cmd
04/30/2010  06:02 PM             1,116 lcp.bat
04/30/2010  06:02 PM             4,422 runant.pl
04/30/2010  06:02 PM             3,396 runant.py
04/30/2010  06:02 PM             1,817 runrc.cmd
              13 File(s)         46,851 bytes

 Directory of C:\Users\Josh\Temp\apache-ant-1.8.1\docs
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For anyone else who may stumble on this question and need an answer - DU from sysinternals

Similar in usage to the unix utility.

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