Show used space rather than remaining space in explorer

In Windows 7's My Computer window, it shows remaining space on drives, with a progress bar.
Is there some way to get it to show the used space instead?

Solution 1:

Simply putting it, no, you can't change the information being presented there.

It was designed like that, and the computer user as no control over the information presented at that specific location.

You can however see that information on the same window activating at least one of the following two options:

1)

You can see that information by activating Percent Full:

1. Press alt + v to open the view menu

2. Click on the Choose details... item

3. You will see that Percent Full is one of the available items, Tick it.

This will activate the Percent Full that shows a nice graphical representation as a bar, that will be shown both in the Details and Tiles view.

Note: this won't be shown for removable media drives.

2)

Also, you can click over a drive and observe the Preview pane, that shows you the "Space Used" graphical representation as a bar for the selected drive.

If you don't have the Preview pane activated, you can access the organize menu and go over the layout item to activate this panel.

Solution 2:

Unfortunately, a numeric representation of the total used space on a drive is not currently (ever?) possible with Windows Explorer as it stands.

The ClassicShell extension changes many aspects of Explorer to be more like they were in XP (which also did not show the used-space). One of the most popular features is to show the total size of selected/all items in a folder in the status bar. Sadly, ClassicShell does not currently show used space in the status bar, but the project is actively developed, so you could always request that feature at its SourceForge or CodeProject sites.

Another option is to try some other alternate shells. None of the on since there’s a good chance that at least one of them incorporates this feature.