New Update WinDirStat Updates Thread

lokamoka820

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Homepage: WinDirStat

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).

Major 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)
 

lokamoka820

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Mar 1, 2024
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WinDirStat 2.0.1
Oct 17, 2024
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
 

lokamoka820

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Mar 1, 2024
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WinDirStat 2.0.3
Oct 22, 2024
Enhancements:
  • Added status pane space usage summation for selected items
  • Added attribute display character for sparse file (Z)
Bug Fixes:
  • Addressed MSI installer not cleaning up old version properly
  • Addressed potential hang when rendering tree icons
  • Addressed behavior when calculating size for docker images
  • Addressed size format not displaying after setting change
  • Addressed Norwegian language loading Dutch language
  • Addressed Portuguese mistranslation (thanks @PedroBittarBarao)
  • Addressed various typos in code comments (thanks @NathanBaulch)
 

lokamoka820

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Mar 1, 2024
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WinDirStat 2.1.1
Dec 8, 2024
Enhancements:
  • Ability to exclude folders by path
  • Ability to exclude files by name
  • Ability to exclude files by minimum file size
  • Scans now stop quicker when requested during duplicate scan
  • Slightly reduced executable size
  • Better Norwegian tranlsations (thanks @TilKenneth)
  • Improved keyboard navigation on the file deletion dialog box
  • Cleanup option to empty folder
  • Improved file deletion progress indicator
  • Display free space percentage next to volume label
  • Other translations improvements (thanks @EricPossato, @tferrerm)
Bug Fixes:
  • Addressed not being able to scan CSC directory
  • Addressed not being to scan SUBST'd drives
  • Addressed save/load files on Windows Server 2016 not working
  • Addressed hover over treemap not showing filename properly
  • Addressed not being able to scan in some Acronis folders
 

lokamoka820

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Mar 1, 2024
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WinDirStat 2.2.0
Jan 6, 2025

Enhancements​

  • Added "Largest Files" tab to the interface
  • Increased the number of colorized extensions in TreeMap
  • Added file extension information to duplicate list
  • Numerous duplicate detection performance improvements
  • Performance improvements when refreshing selected items
  • Added Korean language support (thanks @VenusGirl)
  • Added cleanup option to disable hibernate (hiberfil.sys)
  • Added additional metadata to MSI installer
  • Modified chocolatey installer to allow internalization
  • Allow production / beta to update each other
  • Improved legacy installer cleanup logic

Bug Fixes​

  • Fixed missing overlays on some icons (e.g. .lnk files)
  • Right-aligned numerical data in columns
  • Allow WinDirStat.exe to accept folder as command line argument
  • Addressed numerous potential hanging / crashing scenarios
  • Addressed copy / paste not always working
  • Addressed hiding toolbar and status bar setting persistence
 

lokamoka820

Level 25
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Mar 1, 2024
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WinDirStat 2.2.2
Jan 18, 2025
Enhancements:
  • Traditional Chinese language support (thanks @harryytm)
  • Korean languages updates (thanks @VenusGirl)
  • Gray-out user defined submenu if none are present
  • Basic support for scanning \?Volume{GUID} formatted paths
  • Fallback deletion for hiberfil.sys
  • Various performance enhancements
Bug Fixes:
  • Corrected hash entry inconsistencies in duplicate viewer
  • Corrected tallying of physical sizes in duplicate viewer
  • Corrected treemap zoomed view hit detection and highlighting
  • Corrected treemap custom grid color not being applied
 

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