How to Search for Empty Folders in Windows 11

There are many different ways to find empty folders in Windows 11 instead of manually searching which takes a lot of your time and operations. Then you can easily clean up your computer space, remove unimportant junk folders. Below are instructions to find empty folders in Windows 11.

How to find empty folders in Windows

Find empty Windows folders via Windows Explorer

In the Windows Explorer interface, enter the search command in the search bar kind:folder size:empty or empty and press Enter.

The search function will show all empty files and folders.

Use Command Prompt to find empty folders

You open the Run dialog box then type cmd in the search bar and press Ctrl + Shift + Enter to run as Admin.

Next, type the file path starting with 'cd' and press Enter, for example 'cd %USERPROFILE%Documents'.

In a directory, your command format would be dir /[drive letter] /B [lists file names] /S [if you want to search subdirectories] | find '0 Folder(s). Press Enter to search the contents.