Security News > 2020 > December > Windows 10 to get a built-in command-line disk space analyzer

Microsoft is working on a new built-in command-line 'Disk Usage' utility that reports how much disk space a folder uses.

In the past, users would need to download free tools like TreeSize to list folders using the most space.

While playing with the new Windows 10 Insider builds 20277 and 21277 released last week, BleepingComputer discovered that Microsoft has quietly introduced a new DiskUsage utility.

DiskUsage - Disk Usage Description: Summarize disk usage recursively for the given directory.

As this tool requires administrative privileges, you must first open a Windows 10 elevated command prompt before using diskusage.

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