WinDirStat helps you monitor disk space, gets major update after 19 years

WinDirStat is a program that allows you to find drive space hogs at a glance. It achieves that by displaying a drive, drives or directories in a treemap that assigns bigger areas to bigger files and directories. Making those areas visually separate by coloring and other means allows you to see literally at a glance what the space hogs are and where to dig deeper.

The directory tree is simultaneously shown as a tree list and as a treemap. One can effortlessly gain an impression of the proportions on the drive(s).

Features

• Three views: Directory Tree, Treemap, and Extension
• Duplicate file detection
• Built-in cleanup actions including Open, Delete, Show Properties
• User-defined cleanup actions (command line based)

What's New

Even though it has been 19 years since the last official release, WinDirStat has continued to be a staple of many system administrators' and casual users' computer toolbelts. Some Windows alternatives have appeared over the years, but few have been completely free and even fewer have been opensource. About a year ago, I reached out to Oliver offering to get more involved with WinDirStat development. With his help, I am pleased to announce the release of WinDirStat 2.0.1.

Enhancements

• Multiple item selection
• Scanning performance enhancements
• Duplicate file finder based on file hashes
• Native 64-bit build now available
• Native Arm build now available
• Switched to MSI-based installer
• Menu shortcuts for popular native cleanup utilities
• Portable settings mode using WinDirStat.ini file
• Export scan results to CSV file
• Compress files using transparent compression capabilities
• Context menu option to display full Explorer context menu
• Context menu option to launch PowerShell
• Right-click explorer menu
• Toolbar icons enhanced
• Long file names are now supported
• Option to relaunch with elevated credentials
• Utilize backup / restore privileges to scan inaccessible files
• Pacman drawing enhancements
• Resolution scaling improvements
• Reparse point scanning exclusions
• Per-drive scanning multithreading
• Column to display file owner
• Column to distinguish logical versus physical allocation
• Built-in alternate languages translations
• Shell menu entry (legacy menu only)

Numerous bug fixes

• Breaking Changes / Removed Features
• Non-default settings from 1.x will have to be set again
• Removed Files pseudo folder
• Removed option to email owner
• Removed help files

Last updated:

October 21, 2024

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