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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).

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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)

WinDirStat

Windows Directory Statistics

windirstat.net

 

[lokamoka820]

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

Release WinDirStat 2.0.1 · windirstat/windirstat

See the CHANGELOG for release details.

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[lokamoka820]

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)

Release WinDirStat 2.0.3 · windirstat/windirstat

See the CHANGELOG for release details.

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[lokamoka820]

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

Release WinDirStat 2.1.1 · windirstat/windirstat

See the CHANGELOG for release details.

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[lokamoka820]

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

Release WinDirStat 2.2.0 · windirstat/windirstat

See the CHANGELOG for release details. Use the links below to download or visit https://windirstat.net/download.html for a description of the downloads.

github.com

 

[lokamoka820]

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

Release WinDirStat 2.2.2 · windirstat/windirstat

See the CHANGELOG for release details. Use the links below to download or visit https://windirstat.net/download.html for a description of the downloads.

github.com

 

[lokamoka820]

WinDirStat 2.5.0
Jan 18, 2026

Enhancements

• Added dark mode
• Added direct NTFS MFT scanning option
• Added hardlink tracking
• Added progress dialogs for long-running operations
• Added ability to search scan results
• Added ability to auto-search from extensions menu
• Added ability to move files
• Added ability to compute and display file hashes
• Added ability to save duplicate files to CSV file
• Added elevation eligibility detection and prompting
• Added new keyboard shortcuts
• Added previous folder tracking history
• Added option to launch programs and features applet
• Added option to optimize virtual hard disk files
• Added command line scanning options
• Added dism analyze option
• Added option to toggle Explorer context menu within application
• Added automatic copying of drive mapping when launched as admin
• Enhanced DPI awareness
• Changed sizes to use binary prefixes
• Changed treemap ability to show logical or physical sizes
• Changed file scan output to be sorted by path
• Changed column autosize to respect header width
• Changed volume display to show free, total, and percentages
• Changed compression option to recurse directories
• Changed CSV file output to be sorted by path
• Improved command-line parsing for target directory
• Improved delete and empty folder interface behaviors
• Improved various translations
• Added Swedish translation
• Added Japanese translation
• Added Turkish translation
• Various performance enhancements

Bug Fixes

• Corrected icon caching issues that could result in freezing
• Corrected exclusion case sensitivity selection for filtering
• Corrected extension colorization not working on file load
• Corrected highlight offset when not zoomed
• Corrected Explorer selection in treemap view
• Corrected potential crash when exiting program
• Corrected last-sibling node rendering
• Various other minor bug fixes

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Windows 7 no longer supported
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 no longer supported
• ARM 32-Bit builds no longer supported
• CSV files created with previous versions will not be loadable

windirstat/CHANGELOG.md at master · windirstat/windirstat

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Release WinDirStat 2.5.0 · windirstat/windirstat

See the CHANGELOG for release details. Use the links below to download or visit https://windirstat.net/download.html for a description of the downloads. Contributors for this release include @Venus...

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