How to Add a Visual Disk Space Analyzer Tool to the Context Menu in Windows 10 & 11
Disk space analyzers are software packages that scan your PC’s storage drive and display visual reports. Such analyzers provide a visual overview of the biggest and smallest folders and files within directories in bytes and percentage terms. File Explorer doesn’t have any such graphical disk space analyzer for scanning specific folders.
RidNacs are Disk Savvy are two disk space analyzer tools that integrate with File Explorer’s context menu. They enable you to analyze disk space by right-clicking folders and selecting their scanning options. This is how you can add and utilize those disk analyzers in Windows 11/10.
How to Add a Visual Disk Space Analyzer Tool to Explorer’s Context Menu With RidNacs
RidNacs is a freeware disk analyzer app with which you can scan whole drives, folders, or removable storage devices (USB sticks). This tool displays storage usage reports with percentage bars that give users a clear picture of what’s hogging the most space. You can add the RidNacs analyzer tool to Explorer’s context menu like this:
Now you start analyzing folder storage space usage on your PC with RidNacs. Open the Explorer file manager window, and right-click a folder to selectShow more options. Click theAnalyze Disk Space Usage with RidNacsoption on the classic context menu to start the scan.
RidNacs will open and display drive storage usage for all subfolders and files within the directory, as shown in the snapshot directly below. The graphical bars there show you the percentage volume of all the subfolders and files within the selected directory. That window also shows the number of files in each subfolder along with standard size details.
it’s possible to select other directories or a whole drive to scan within the RidNacs window. To do so, clickFileand theChoose Directoryoption. Then choose another folder or an entire drive to scan and clickOK.
RidNacs doesn’t have lots of customization settings. However, you can change the percentage bar style. To do so, click thePreferencesbutton. Then select a different color option on the Percentage bar style. SelectApply>OKto save the new bar style setting.
How to Add a Visual Disk Space Analyzer Tool to Explorer’s Context Menu With Disk Savvy
Disk Savvy is a slightly more advanced disk analyzer tool to RidNacs that includes a variety of pie and bar charts for users to view for analyzed folders. However, the freely available unregistered version’s file analysis is restricted to a maximum of 500,000 files. You’ll need to upgrade the software to its $50 pro version to remove that limitation. These are the steps for adding the Disk Savvy tool to File Explorer’s context menu.
Now you can try out the Disk Savvy analyzer utility. Go into File Explorer, and right-click a folder to analyze to selectShow more options>Disk Savvy - Analyze Disk Space. Click theAnalyzebutton on theDefault Profile to confirm the selected directory.
The Disk Savvy window that opens displays similar disk usage info to RidNacs. It includes columns that tell you how many files are in the subfolders, the byte size of each folder and file, and the percentage of their root directory’s total size they amount to. However, Disk Savvy also includes aCategorize bysubmenu that includes various options for viewing categorized file info.
What sets Disk Savvy apart from RidNacs are its bar and pie graph options for viewing disk space usage info. Click theChartsbutton to access those options. Then you can select an option likeDisk Space Per File Type,Disk Space Per Directory, andDisk Space Per Extensionto view a pie chart like the one below.
Disk Savvy also has a feature that displays all the top (biggest) files within an analyzed folder. To utilize that feature, click theTop Filesbutton. Then select an option likeView Top Images Sorted By File SizeorView Top Music Files Sorted By the File Sizeto see what the biggest ones are.
This software can analyze multiple folders at once. To select multiple folders in the Disk Savvy window, clickDefault profileson the left and the+Addinputbutton for directories. Then select theAdd Input Directoryoption, click theellipsisbutton, choose a folder to add, and press theOKbuttons. ClickAnalyzeto scan all selected folders.
You can save and export disk usage reports to various file formats. To do so, click theSaveoption. Select a file extension option on theReport formatdrop-down menu; click theReport typedrop-down menu to choose an option there, and press theSavebutton. You can view the report by opening it from the default Documents folder save location.
Get a Visual Overview of Folder and File Disk Usage in Windows
RidNics and Disk Savvy are useful tools that enable users to quickly analyze disk space usage in selected folders or entire drives. Those context menu utilities give you a comprehensive visual overview of what files and folders are taking up the most space on your hard drive. They’ll come in handy for freeing up drive space through manual user file deletion.
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