RidNacs for Windows

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Key Details of RidNacs

Analyze your disk space usage.
Last updated on December 18, 2024
There have been 3 updates
Virus scan status:
Clean (it’s extremely likely that this software program is clean)

Editors’ Review

Download.com staffDecember 18, 2024

Just like your car, it's important to keep your computer tuned up to ensure that it runs at its best. Regularly removing old and unnecessary files is crucial, and RidNacs aims to help you with this task by analyzing your PC's disk space usage. Unfortunately, its lack of viable help and vague results left a lot to be desired.

We appreciate the program's clean user interface. It consists of a small window with commands at the top for choosing directories to analyze and a blank panel for displaying results. But upon closer inspection, we found its menu items and commands a bit vague. The program doesn't include any kind of viable Help feature; it offers a link to the publisher's Web site, but unless you speak fluent German, you're out of luck.

We started by selecting the Choose Directory option and choosing to analyze our C drive. The program quickly went to work letting us watch, in real time, as it scanned our folders. Bar graphs represented percentages for each folder, but we weren't sure what the percentages represented. Do the graphs reflect the percentage of free space left in each folder, or just the opposite? It was hard to tell, and because we don't speak German, we couldn't find an answer.

While RidNacs has a clean interface and scans quickly, its functionality leaves much to be desired for non-German-speaking users. If you're looking for better disk space analysis tools, there are several viable alternatives. Tools like WinDirStat or TreeSize Free are excellent for analyzing your disk usage comprehensively.

WinDirStat offers a visual overview of your files and folders, with color-coded data maps that make it easy to identify what's taking up the most space. Similarly, TreeSize Free is intuitive and provides clear insights into disk usage, breaking down folder sizes and offering easy-to-understand summaries.

These tools also come with comprehensive help files and tutorials to guide users, making them far more accessible than RidNacs. For a seamless experience in managing disk space, exploring such reliable and user-friendly alternatives is highly recommended.

Bottom Line

RidNacs cleanly installs and uninstalls yet we do not recommend this program.

RidNacs for Windows

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Full Specifications

GENERAL

Release: March 13, 2010

Latest update: December 18, 2024

Version: 2.0.3

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows 2003
Windows Vista
Windows XP
Windows NT
Windows 2000
Windows 10
Windows Server
Windows 7

Additional Requirements: None

POPULARITY

Total Downloads: 14,839

Downloads Last Week: 6

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User Reviews

4.8/5

4 User Votes

The Mercedes of Disk Space Analyzers: Highly Recommend
netdesignJuly 15, 2011
Pros
Does exactly what I wanted. Shows clearly how much space each folder on my disk uses. Fast and user-friendly. Clear display of how much disk space each folder takes as a percentage of the whole.
Cons
None. Best tool for disk space analysis.
Summary
Definitely recommend this tool. Suggest CNET also recommends it. Bars alongside each folder show how much space that folder takes up as a percentage of the total space taken by the root folder of your selection. If you select the C:\ folder, then the bar shows how much space that folder takes up as a percentage of your total available space used on the C:\ drive. Simple and clear. Better still, when you open a sub folder of those shown in your analysis, they too have bars showing how much they contribute to disk space usage, with their disk space being shown as a percentage of the total space used by the root folder chosen for your analysis. I joined up CNET just to write this review as I reckon this is one of the most useful and easy to use tools on CNET. Great work RidNacs.
DAMN HOT UTILITY!
PalmerPinckneyJanuary 31, 2009
Pros
Now this is a utility that everyone can use. Simple, easy, and informative! A must have for anyone that wants to know exactly where the "disk hog" is. Great job SlashSoft!
Cons
None. The is a good application.
Summary
Perfect!
great product does the job
strivan21September 3, 2008
Pros
I had used folder size but going to Vista that wasn't an option. I searched and searched and finally stumbled upon Ridnacs and it was just what i was looking for. Very useful.
Cons
haven't found any yet.
Summary
It is a very useful utility when you are trying to figure out where all that disk space is going.
Diffrent!
kendo_waterJuly 17, 2008
Pros
This program alows you to see your usage of your hard drive like when you go to properties on your hard drive!
Cons
It seems kind of scary because it scans everything! You can see the names of the programs too but that should be in the good section, shouldent it?
Summary

Developer’s Description

Analyze your disk space usage.

RidNacs is a very fast disk space usage analyzer. It scans your local drives, network drives, or single directories and represents the result of the analysis clearly in a tree view with a percentage bar. This gives the user a quick and easy way to identify the largest directories and it's very useful for cleaning up the disk.