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  Why doesn't Explorer show recursive directory size as an optional column?
Time: 00:52 EST/05:52 GMT | News Source: Microsoft | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum

"Why start up another program to see folder sizes, when they should just be right there, in Explorer, all the time?"

The same reason \\ does not autocomplete to all the computers on the network: Because it would destroy corporate networks.

Showing folder sizes "all the time" means that when you open, say, the root of a large server, Explorer would start running around recursively enumerating every single directory on the server in order to compute the folder sizes. One person doing this to a server is bad enough. Imagine if hundreds of people did it simultaneously: The server would be hammered continously.

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