Add Folder Size in Windows XP’s Explorer
Written by Shanx February 20th, 2003
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Neat little tip to see size of your folders.
Want to see the size of your folders and not just files in your Windows XP Explorer listings?
Well it’s probably a simple feature that the Windows team at Microsoft forgot to include, so Mark Dormer has a solution. Just download his tiny DLL file:
It’s an EXE file. All you really have to do is:
- Copy the file to your
c:\windows\system32 folder.
- Execute the following command in Start –> Run dialogue box and you’re ready to roll:
regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\dirsize.dll
- Now open Explorer in details view, you wont see the column yet. Right click on a heading in the right pane and select “Folder Size”.
Couple of Caveats
- Calculating folder size is a turtle on very large folders with lots of subfolders. There’s no indexing built into this.
- As much you and I would like, this tool doesn’t do sorting of folders based on the folder size. You may want to give another utility a try, the Folder Shell Extension.
Couple of Tips
Hope this helps.
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6 Comments
The link
ownload Mark Dormer’s Folderview DLL
is a bad link.
markd.mvps.org/DirSize.dll Returns a page cannot be found error.
Has any one used this program and does it work?
You can get the DLL by downloading the demo project from http://www.codeproject.com/shell/DirectorySize.asp?df=100&forumid=26286&exp=0&select=1151181
Good Tip. This is now superceded by this freeware program (and others no doubt!) I found on softpedia get it here:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancements/Folder-Size-Explorer-Extension.shtml
After placing dll in system32 folder, RegSvr32 complains “not an executable file and no registration helper is registered for this file type”?
Here's how you may enable displaying folders size without installation of any additional software:
http://www.myhowtoos.com/en/windows-howtoos/91-...
Hey davide1982. Downloading a DLL and registering it in the system is installation of software. And your link is broken.
Ken