Empty Folder Finder

Although they don't have a detrimental effect on your system, having empty folders on the hard drive, for no particular reason, can make some of us feel uneasy. If you want to tidy up your local folders, Empty Folder Finder can help you get the job done in under a minute. This lightweight application is capable of finding empty folders almost instantly and it can delete them just as fast.

Empty Folder Finder is absolutely free and you can have it up and running in no time, on any popular Windows platform. The application doesn't have any special requirements and it doesn't use a significant amount of resources.

Specifying a path to one of your local folders and clicking a button is all you have to do. The application will immediately scan its contents for empty folders. The results are displayed on a separate window, on which you can select individual folders and use different options to open or delete them.

A few simple tweaks can be made before starting a scan. The application can be set to look for directories that contain up to a certain number of files, folders with a size smaller than a given value or folders that contain only files with specific extensions. Regardless of what conditions you set, the final word will be yours. The application won't delete anything until you review the results yourself and decide what should go or stay.

With Empty Folder Finder, you can make sure that no empty folders will remain on your hard drive.