Upon launching TreeSize, it automatically scanned the server’s hard drive and presented me with the screen shown in Figure 1. Within a matter of a few minutes, I managed to locate several things that I could remove from my PC to reclaim some of my lost disk space.įor the purposes of this article, I installed TreeSize on a Windows Server 2019 machine that was running a lab deployment of Azure AD Connect. I found TreeSize to be very lightweight, easy to use and, most importantly, effective. I initially downloaded TreeSize because my primary desktop computer was running low on storage space and I needed to figure out where my disk space had gone. The software seems to work just as well on Windows Server as it does on Windows 10 machines. TreeSize is likely designed for use on Windows 10, but out of curiosity I also tried installing it on Windows Server 2019. Fortunately, there is a free tool that does a great job of helping you to figure out how your storage space is being used and what you might be able to do to reclaim some of that space. The available space just seems to decrease over time, even if you are not doing anything that seems like it should consume a lot of space.

It’s amazing just how quickly storage space can be depleted in a Windows environment.

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