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Re:Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft. Readers say all... by patapong on Saturday April 12, 2025 @10:58AM (#43664951)
I agree with these. Here are some third party tools that can help with some of the gripes though:

> - No instant search (macOS has had it for how many years now?) Everything search somehow does instant search across the entire file system. It is the first thing I install when I get a new computer, cannot stress enough how much time this has saved me: https://www.voidtools.com/

> - No tool to graphically show where my diskspace went; allowing me to find and delete large files

This one takes a while to scan but produces an excellent visualization: http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/ (Scanner)

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Re:Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft. Readers say all... by ziml77 on Saturday April 12, 2025 @02:15PM (#43666713)
I use WizTree to see what's taking space. On NTFS volumes it uses the same method as Everything does to quickly read all the file info straight from the filesystem.
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