New Update WizTree Update Thread

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What is WizTree?​

WizTree is a very high speed disk space analyzer utility for Windows. It scans your hard drive and shows you which files and folders are using the most disk space. Your entire hard drive's file system is displayed visually, making it very easy to locate large files and folders. Use the information WizTree provides to quickly locate and remove "space hogs" from your hard drive.

WARNING: Take care not to remove any files that are required for the correct operation of your PC!

What makes WizTree so fast?​

When scanning NTFS formatted hard drives (most modern hard drives use this format), WizTree reads the hard drive's Master File Table (MFT) directly from the disk. The MFT is a special hidden file used by the NTFS file system to keep track of all files and folders on a hard drive. Scanning for files this way completely bypasses the operating system (Windows) and provides a huge performance boost.

WizTree can also scan non NTFS hard drives, network drives, USB drives and individual directories.

WizTree 4.20 (29 July 2024)​

• New tweak option added (Options->Tweaks):
  "Scan MFT (if possible) when a folder is selected for analysis" - default is off
  Normally, when a folder is selected for analysis WizTree will scan using the Windows API (MFT scanning is not used). This method is generally quicker when analyzing small to medium sized folders, but for very large folders it can be much quicker to scan the entire MFT file instead.
  If this option is enabled WizTree will always scan the MFT file (is possible) when a folder is selected. You can also force WizTree to scan the MFT when a folder is selected by holding down the CTRL key when starting a new scan. The CTRL key must be down when the scanning process starts for this to work.
• Fixed possible reverse order sorting issue in File View when scanning multiple drives/folders
• Cut/Copy files to clipboard working again on Windows XP/2000/2003 (stopped working in 4.18 due to compatibility issues with new code)
• Processing of folders with millions of files with unique file extensions greatly sped up. Previously WizTree could appear to stop responding when loading such folders into the tree view or when generating the tree map.
• Tree map export now always processes files and folders in size order as the resulting output looks much nicer this way
• Windows Explorer context menu shortcut key for WizTree changed from W to Z (from &WizTree to Wi&zTree) to prevent conflict with "New" option
• Fixed issue where file sizes/allocated sizes could incorrectly be set to 0 for hard linked files in some cases
• MFT scanning speed up to 15% faster in certain cases over previous version

Download WizTree

WizTree is the fastest disk space analyzer for Windows. Download the latest version here. Use it to quickly locate and remove space hogs from your hard drive and free up valuable disk space.

www.diskanalyzer.com

Didn't find an update thread for WizTree, so here it is.