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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)
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WinDirStat

Windows Directory Statistics
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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
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Release WinDirStat 2.0.1 · windirstat/windirstat

See the CHANGELOG for release details.
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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)
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Release WinDirStat 2.0.3 · windirstat/windirstat

See the CHANGELOG for release details.
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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
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Release WinDirStat 2.1.1 · windirstat/windirstat

See the CHANGELOG for release details.
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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
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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.
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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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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 github.com
 
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
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windirstat/CHANGELOG.md at master · windirstat/windirstat

WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows - windirstat/windirstat
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github.com

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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WinDirStat 2.6.0
Enhancements
  • Improved treemap navigation, zooming, and context-menu behavior
  • Improved FileTreeView keyboard navigation and scroll-to-selection behavior
  • Improved selection handling when sorting file-tree results
  • Improved Select Drives dialog layout and local-drive display
  • Added double-click scan behavior in the Select Drives dialog
  • Added include filters and file age filtering
  • Added filter exclusion context-menu actions
  • Added pruning for previous-folder history
  • Added larger toolbar icon support and runtime-generated toolbar icons
  • Added Settings button to toolbar
  • Improved toolbar rendering with Unicode glyph support
  • Added selectable file hash algorithms
  • Increased size and percentage display precision
  • Changed subtree percentage display to size proportion terminology
  • Added JSON support for saving/loading scan results and duplicate lists
  • Expanded cleanup and system-tool handling
  • Improved localization resources and multiple language updates
  • Added installer option to add WinDirStat to the system PATH, disabled by default
  • Removed OLE dependency to allow execution on Server Core
  • Various performance, memory, and internal refactoring improvements
Bug Fixes
  • Corrected custom folder icon resolution failures
  • Corrected extension column autosizing issues
  • Corrected extension calculations after refresh
  • Correct legacy uninstall registry key removal
  • Addressed selection regressions in owner-data tree/list handling
  • Corrected drive handling when volume names or trailing slashes are missing
  • Corrected cloud-duplication-detection warning behavior
  • Corrected clipboard memory handling
Miscellaneous
  • Added Microsoft Store MSIX packaging support
  • Added Chocolatey release publishing automation
  • Microsoft Windows Server Core now supported
  • Microsoft Windows 7 supported again
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 supported again
Breaking Changes
  • Command line options for saving and loading have changed (see Wiki)
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windirstat/CHANGELOG.md at master · windirstat/windirstat

WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows - windirstat/windirstat
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Release WinDirStat 2.6.0 · 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.
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WinDirStat 2.6.1
Enhancements:
  • Improved gear, pause, filter, and refresh icon rendering
  • Improved icons lookups on latent networks
  • Improved treemap rendering performance
Bug Fixes:
  • Corrected some glyphs not rendering on Windows 7
  • Corrected potential compressed size detection issue
  • Corrected potential reparse point enumeration issues
  • Corrected file-based exclusions context menu option
  • Corrected potential race condition during icon rendering
  • Corrected minor handle leak in drive selection dialog
  • Corrected potential crash when excluding reserved files
  • Corrected Windows Store manifest generation issues
  • Addressed folders not appearing in search results
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windirstat/CHANGELOG.md at master · windirstat/windirstat

WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows - windirstat/windirstat
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WinDirStat 2.6.2
Enhancements
  • Improved extension-checking performance during scan
  • Improved icon-loading behavior to skip downloads for offline files
  • Improved window flashing using non-interactive command line options
  • Improved numeric display precision for percentages and sizes
  • Improved security by preventing DLL sideloading
  • Improved file select and document icons
  • Improved Simplified Chinese translation
  • Improved treemap rendering on low color depth Remote Desktop
Bug Fixes
  • Corrected compression options not showing for a folder-based scan
  • Corrected potential crash in file watcher component
  • Corrected potential copy/paste path handling in the Select Drives dialog
  • Corrected potential COM initialization to occur on the UI thread
  • Corrected potential hang for unresponsive drive mappings
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windirstat/CHANGELOG.md at master · windirstat/windirstat

WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows - windirstat/windirstat
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WinDirStat 2.7.0
Enhancements
  • Added Storage Analytics and cost optimization view
  • Added permissions scanning and export capabilities
  • Added window layout chooser for the main panes
  • Added tools to remove empty folders and change folder dates to last change
  • Added folder frames option to treemap visualization
  • Added multilingual support for MSI installer
  • Added file deletion warning before profile deletions
  • Added profile deletion progress tracking
  • Added xxHash (XXH3) as a selectable file hashing algorithm
  • Added option to group unregistered file extensions
  • Added shortcut to launch Microsoft Storage Settings
  • Added extension search on double-click in extension list (thanks @harryytm)
  • Added selected items count and statistics to status bar (thanks @harryytm)
  • Added UTF-8 BOM support for CSV/JSON files
  • Improved column width autosizing performance in list and tree views
  • Improved progress control rendering and layout behavior
  • Improved multi-file operations and multi-selection properties dialog
  • Improved CSV/JSON loading performance using buffered reads
  • Improved tab spacing in light mode
  • Improved Italian translation (thanks @bovirus)
Bug Fixes
  • Corrected accelerated scanning on Linux-created NTFS file systems
  • Corrected potential crash when scanning root network shares
  • Corrected potential shutdown hang or delay after a scan completes
  • Corrected potential scan cancellation hang when worker thread is blocked
  • Corrected progress bar behavior dropping from 100% back to 99% at scan completion
  • Corrected layout alignment and spacing in setting dialogs
  • Corrected localization language fallback logic regression (thanks @harryytm)
  • Corrected various other minor issues
Miscellaneous
  • Added MSIX bundle publishing support in WinGet
  • Updated build script to default to the beta configuration after a short delay
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windirstat/CHANGELOG.md at master · windirstat/windirstat

WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows - windirstat/windirstat
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