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Windows 10 to get a built-in command line disk space analyzer

Microsoft is working on the introduction of a new tool that allows, via Cmd, to quickly scan your disks to find out which files and folders are the largest. It is primarily intended for advanced users and administrators.

The command is still in development, but it could change quite a few things in Windows 10’s Cmd tool. Microsoft wants to introduce an efficient and fast solution to find out which files and folders are the most cumbersome. Intended primarily for advanced users and administrators, this command is currently only available to members of the Insider program.

It will also complete a new monitoring tool that Microsoft plans to integrate, this time, directly into the settings of its OS.

PROVIDED YOU MASTER THE COMMAND PROMPT

The DiskUsage command on which Microsoft planks allows us to scan specific folders or even entire drivers. At the end of the day, detailed information on the space occupied, including for each sub-folder.

Displaying the size of system files and the space reserved for them (if this function is active, specifies MSPowerUser) is also on the menu, as is the possibility of activating a filter to sort files according to their size or according to the space they occupy on the disk. The command also allows you to display folders using the “greater than or equal” filter. Customization of results is finally possible with DiskUsage.

Note that the DiskUsage command is still at the beginning of its development. Therefore, some features still have bugs and there are also some spelling errors in the instructions. If you want to discover all the instructions currently available, do not hesitate to go to the article published recently by the specialized site BleepingComputer.

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