Features

• Don’t switch to another program to see folder sizes. It’s always there when you’re viewing your folders (even in Open and Save file dialog boxes, you can change the view), and it’s a great visual cue to help you find the one you’re looking for. Not just for disk cleanup, but for any time you need to choose a folder.

• No scanning phase before you can start. As soon as you display the Folder Size column, you’ll see sizes immediately. Large folders will continue to scan in the background while you browse your folders.

• Explorer will automatically update the folder size column in real-time. No more manual rescanning.

• Background scans won’t monopolize your disk. When Folder Size detects that other programs are doing a lot of reading to and writing from the hard disk being scanned, the background scanning will wait for the other programs to finish.

• If you don’t show the Folder Size column for a while, it won’t forget what it’s already scanned, but the background scanner doesn’t stay active. It won’t waste any CPU time maintaining the cache on your P2P sharing or gaming machine that’s always changing files.

Download Links:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/foldersize/files/

How to Install

1. First, make sure you’re running Windows 2000 or XP. Sorry, it doesn’t work in Vista.
2. Download the installer.
3. Run the downloaded file to start the install wizard. It has boring template text, so just keep clicking Next. Typical and Complete installs do the same thing, Custom lets you change where it gets installed.
4. Now the Folder Size column is available to Explorer, but Explorer isn’t displaying it yet. Open an Explorer window in Details view.
5. Right click on the column headers to see a list of columns you can add. Choose Folder Size.
6. Now we can replace the existing Size column with the new Folder Size column. Right click on the column headers and uncheck the Size column. Drag the Folder Size column header to where Size used to be.
7. Make this the default view for all folders. Go to Folder Options from the Tools menu. In the View tab, click Apply to All Folders.

Changing settings

Look in the Windows Control Panels to find the Folder Size control panel. If you’re in the confusing Category View in XP, where it says Pick a category, click on Switch to Classic View in the left-hand pane. And then view as Icons. Isn’t that better?
Use the control panel to change the way sizes are displayed. Also stop the service to stop any background activity.

Removing

So it crashes every once in a while, and slows down your computer. That’s no reason to uninstall it. Well, if you really want to, use the Add or Remove Programs control panel. You’ll have to manually fix the columns in Explorer too.

Some features:

Quickly Switching Folders
Click the middle mouse button (show menu 1 hotkey), a popup menu for favorite folders will show up, click on an item and it will switch to that folder.

Quickly Launch Folders
You can also show the menu anywhere with Win+W (show menu 2 hotkey), and launch files or folders quickly.

Show Menu Hotkeys
Ctrl-Click Menu
If you holding Ctrl (or Shift, or mouse right button) while click, a menu of subfolders of that item will show up.
Holding both Ctrl and Shift to show files in the menu.
If the selected item is a file, its shell context menu will show up.

Recent Items
You can add a “Recent items” submenu to the favorite menu, it will record recently opened items.
The System Recent item is the recent files in Windows system.

Toggle Explorer Settings
You can quickly toggle between show or hide hidden files, and show or hide file extension.


Download
This is a single portable executable file. Configuration file (Config.ini) will be created after first run.
Configuration file is portable, just put it with the exe in the same folder.

Features

* Monitor directories for file changes, modifications, deletions and new files.
* Monitor local directories or network shares (including hidden shares).
* Optionally execute an application when an event occurs.
* Quickly tell if a directory is available and being monitored.
* Balloon notifications whenever an event is fired.
* Auto updating, import/export and more.

Requirements

* .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 – Add .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, only a ~10 meg download.
* Windows Installer 3.1

Download

* Add some built-in utilities that perform operations on files and folders.
* Add customised commands which run external applications, copy/move to a specific folder or delete specific file types.
* Configure the “Send to…” submenu.
* Enable/disable commands which are added by other applications to the context menu.

Download
Note: Use universal extractor to extract this setup.exe and launch the program by clicking FileMenuTools,1.exe in {app} folder.
Download language files at this page.