WinDirStat

WinDirStat is a free and open-source graphical disk usage analyzer for Microsoft Windows. It presents a sub-tree view with disk-use percentage alongside a usage-sorted list of file extensions that is interactively integrated with a colorful graphical display (a treemap).

What is WinDirStat ?

WinDirStat is a program that allows you to find disk 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 simultanously shown as a treelist and as a treemap. One can effortlessly gain an impression of the proportions on the hard disk(s).

Major features

• 3 views, Directory tree, Treemap and Extension list, coupled with each other,
• Built-in cleanup actions including Open, Delete, Show Properties,
• User defined cleanup actions (command line based),
• Language is English by default; further translations can be added as resource DLLs,
• Online-Help,
• A little setup.exe which installs the files and shortcuts.

How does WinDirStat work?

WinDirStat scans your hard drive and creates a visual representation of the disk usage using coloured rectangles. Each rectangle represents a file or folder, with larger rectangles indicating larger file sizes.

How to fix windirstat.exe

A clean and tidy computer is one of the best ways to avoid problems with WinDirStat 1.1.2. This means performing malware scans, cleaning your hard disk, uninstalling programs you no longer need, monitoring any auto-start programs (with msconfig), and enabling automatic Windows updates. Don’t forget to always make regular backups or at least define recovery points.