Restoro has been downloaded by 0 readers this month.Download Restoro PC Repair Tool that comes with Patented Technologies (patent available here).Ĭlick Start Scan to find Windows issues that could be causing PC problems.Ĭlick Repair All to fix issues affecting your computer's security and performance.Still, it’s close and with the hiding options and the fact that it closes with Explorer, it’s still a utility I would use. Overall, it’s a good program, but I wish the developer was able to hack Windows 7/8 to get the size to show up as a column rather than in a separate window. I didn’t run into any of these issues while running the program in Windows 7, but you should be aware of them as they might cause problems. Sometimes the pop up covers the close button on the Windows Explorer interface. The background scanning in Windows Vista and higher is not optimized fully as of yet.Ĥ.

The background service can sometimes run into permissions issues on certain machines.ģ.

Sometimes the size of the Windows directory will be reported larger than the actual size because of the use of hard links in the system.Ģ. There are some known issues with the software that the developer hopes to fix in the next version and they include:ġ. The software also supports 64-bit machines, so that should make some people happy. This way, you can just let in run in the background and whenever you want to see folder sizes, just single click on the icon in the taskbar to open the window. If you don’t want the popup window to appear at all when you open an instance of Explorer, just right-click on the taskbar icon and uncheck the Show Folder Size popups. After a few minutes, the program had scanned all the folders on my disk and I was able to instantly see the folder sizes. The developer realized this annoying issue and also made a small taskbar icon so that you can close the popup window when you don’t need it and simply click on the taskbar icon whenever you want to see folder sizes.

Thankfully, it does close when you close Explorer. The popup window is not the greatest solution and it can become a little annoying after a while. In Windows Vista and higher, the pop up window will display instead. The window will automatically update the folder sizes in real timeĪs of right now, the software works on Windows 2000 and Windows XP so that the column is displayed directly within Explorer.

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