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Dennis Marks - 24 Feb 2007 17:58 GMT

Without running a scan with a virus or adware program is there a way to
get a count of files and folders on a hard disk?

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Ken Blake, MVP - 24 Feb 2007 18:16 GMT

> Without running a scan with a virus or adware program is there a way
> to get a count of files and folders on a hard disk?

Click the drive in My Computer, press Ctrl-A to select everything on the
drive, right-click within the list, and choose Properties.

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Dennis Marks - 24 Feb 2007 18:34 GMT

On 2/24/2007 10:16 AM, Ken Blake, MVP wrote the following and I, Dennis
Marks, have replied at the bottom:

>> Without running a scan with a virus or adware program is there a way
>> to get a count of files and folders on a hard disk?
>
> Click the drive in My Computer, press Ctrl-A to select everything on the
> drive, right-click within the list, and choose Properties.

Thank you. Now I have further questions.

Properties of the C drive shows 18.3 mb used. Selecting all the files,
including hidden, shows 12.7 mb. Why?

The number of files shown is 55,774 but Norton scans 788,507 files. Why?

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Cooler Dude - 25 Feb 2007 00:34 GMT

> On 2/24/2007 10:16 AM, Ken Blake, MVP wrote the following and
> I, Dennis Marks, have replied at the bottom:
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> The number of files shown is 55,774 but Norton scans 788,507
> files. Why?

Possibly because Norton is including all the individual files
contained within the .zip, .rar, .cab and any other "archived"
files.

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Gerry Cornell - 27 Feb 2007 16:11 GMT

Ken

For the record on my computer your suggestion works for a single
volume. It does not seem to work for My Computer where there is more
than one drive or volume.

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> Click the drive in My Computer, press Ctrl-A to select everything on
> the drive, right-click within the list, and choose Properties.

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Stan Brown - 25 Feb 2007 02:27 GMT

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 09:58:50 -0800 from Dennis Marks
<denmarks@yahoo.com>:

> Without running a scan with a virus or adware program is there a way to
> get a count of files and folders on a hard disk?

In a command window:
dir /a /s c:\*
(For a different disk, replace c with that disk letter.)

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