See whats taking memory

Hi,
I own a Lumia 900 and yesterday I noticed that I am using about 14GB of my 16GB memory, I synced my phone and migrated all my videos. Now it only uses 10GB of memory which still is too much.
I just want to know if there is a way to see exact details of whats taking memory, most of my applications I don't use as frequent as others and I just want to know the amount each app is using so that I know what to remove and what to keep instead of going on an uninstall spree and hope for the best.
So is there a way to do this, without jailbreaking/unlocking/rooting the device?

Hi dahaka7,
It's good to remove all applications that you do not use, as they may use surprisingly a lot of space on your device, especially if they are caching content or creating detailed log files. In addition to pictures, videos, applications, music and games. your phone has the operating system on the phone memory, which will reserve some of the space.
I am afraid there is no tool that will enable you to see how much space a certain application reserves, but you can see how big the installation file is before you download it. Some games especially can be rather large, up to several hundred megabytes. So the xBox tile is a good place to start if you are looking to free up some space.
Hope this helps,
Puigchild
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