Hi all i recently been trying to find some way of displaying the size of folders in explorer details view. I did not want any sort of application installed for such a simple thing. With the help of someone over at MSFN i found the below .dll file which works great apart from the fact that it takes not notice of KB, MB & GB for example it will show
743Kb
237Mb
instead of the other way around. Is anyone aware of how to edit the below file to work the way it should, cheers.
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Edit a .dll file to display the folder size?
Started by englishmen, Sep 17 2005 10:26 AM
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#2 Guest_Mangix_*
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Posted 17 September 2005 - 04:25 PM
did you make it?
and doesnt Exlorer already have an option to view the size of folders?
and doesnt Exlorer already have an option to view the size of folders?
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Posted 17 September 2005 - 07:03 PM
I wish, i asked on the MSFN forums and someone recommended http://markd.mvps.org/home.asp the file i uploaded to uploadr is just the file which i keep on my pc for backup purposes. No explorer does not currently display folder size in details view.
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Posted 17 September 2005 - 07:21 PM
lol i misread your post 
. i thought you mean is there a way to see a folder's size through explorer 
. i thought you mean is there a way to see a folder's size through explorer
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Posted 18 September 2005 - 11:22 AM
I don't know if this is the same thing or not, however on my system I enable the Status Bar in an Explorer window by clicking "View->Status Bar" then the immediate folder size is shown (not sub-directories) at the bottom of the open window. It also works in detailed view.
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Posted 18 September 2005 - 12:15 PM
Not quite but thanks anyway Andavari, the below screen shot shows what the .dll that i got does you see it displays a folder size and works great. What you also see tho is that as i said it does not take into account kb, mb & gb when you arrange the folders by size it just puts the highest number first as in the pic 904kb is put above 619mb. So what i was hoping is that someone who knows what they are talking about maybe able to edit the file to display the sizes correctly.
