Usage

Usage

Scanning

• Click a drive card in the left sidebar to scan that drive, or Scan all drives to scan every volume in parallel — results stream in per drive as each finishes.
• ClutterCutter also auto-scans on startup, so it opens straight into a populated view.
• Press F5 to re-scan the last target; Esc stops a running scan.

The table

The main table lists the selected folder's contents — subfolders first, then files, alphabetically:

Column	Meaning
Name	Folder / file, with an icon
% of parent	A bar showing this item's share of its parent's size
Size	Total size (including sub-items, for folders)
Own size	Bytes in this folder's own files, excluding sub-folders
Files / Folders	Counts under this item
Modified	Last-modified date

Navigating

• Double-click a folder row to drill in, level after level.
• The top bar has Back, Forward, and Home buttons (Home jumps back to the all-drives overview).
• Click any segment of the breadcrumb to jump to that ancestor.

Side-panel views

Open the side panel from the View menu; then use the three icon buttons in the panel's header to switch between:

• Top largest files — the biggest files anywhere in the scan.
• Oldest files — by last-modified date.
• Safe-to-delete temp files — known temp/cache locations, with a Recycle all button.

The panel can be detached into its own floating window, and there's a draggable splitter between it and the table.

Deleting

Everything goes to the Recycle Bin, never a permanent delete:

• Select a row and press Del, or right-click → Move to Recycle Bin.
• In the temp-files view, Ctrl/Shift-click to multi-select, then Del — or Recycle all.
• Deletes update the view in place on a background thread — the sizes along the path adjust with no rescan and no freeze.

Right-click actions

Open in Explorer · Copy path · Open Command Prompt here · Move to Recycle Bin.

Keyboard shortcuts

Key	Action
F5	Refresh / re-scan
Esc	Stop the running scan
Enter	Drill into the selected row
Backspace	Go to the parent folder
Del	Move selected item(s) to the Recycle Bin

Theme

A Light / Dark / Auto theme follows the Windows system theme by default; toggle it from the Theme menu or the slider in the top-right. Your window size is remembered between launches.