Searching on Vista

Jeff Lynne · 5 Jan 2009 at 20:35

Is it possible to do a search on Vista to list results by size? I used to be able to do that on XP but can't seem to find out how on Vista

Dano · 5 Jan 2009 at 20:39

Right click the headers and add the size option, then you'll be able to sort them

Jeff Lynne · 5 Jan 2009 at 20:42

the headers of the search results? I want to basically search the whole hard drive and cull the larger files that I don't need to free up some disk space.

Dano · 5 Jan 2009 at 20:52

Yes, where the results are listed, the headers that read 'name, date modified, etc etc'

Jeff Lynne · 5 Jan 2009 at 20:58

Yeah, I appreciate that but how do I search the whole hard drive for files over, say, 1gb?

Dano · 5 Jan 2009 at 21:11

http://www.vistahunt.com/windows-vista-search.html

Sorry, your OP was not at all clear.

Jeff Lynne · 5 Jan 2009 at 21:12

OK, np, I've sussed it now. I just did a search for "."!

bledd · 6 Jan 2009 at 09:29

jdiskreport is awesome for displaying your drive in size, graphically

also, disable system restore that'll save a lot of space

Nikumba · 6 Jan 2009 at 21:46

And turn of hibination, as that will take up space equal to your ram.

Also Spacemonger is awesome drive tool as well, use it loads in work with user profile folders to track down the offenders