It called WinDirStat a 'great piece of freeware' and noted: 'It's one of those tools that you didn't know you needed until you started using it, but once installed, it's hard to imagine life without it.' 'ĬNET reviewed the most recent release of WinDirStat and gave it 5 of 5 stars. Reviewer Adam Pash praised WinDirStat for its ability to easily clean up unnecessary files, by stating: 'If you find a large file or two taking up loads of space that you had forgotten was there and don't need, it's easy to clean up directly from WinDirStat. In 2006, WinDirStat was 'Download of the day' on Lifehacker.

It scans your drive and produces a treemap that shows each file as a colored rectangle that's proportional to the file's size.'

Steve Bass of PC World provided a brief review of the 1.1.2 release of WinDirStat, summarizing its usefulness: 'Windirstat is colorful and nifty tool to check the makeup of your hard drive - especially if you're looking for immense files. WinDirStat is 'a KDirStat re-programmed for MS Windows'.įossHub (official download mirror of WinDirStat) reported 6,912,000 downloads in January 2019, being the most downloaded software from 'Disk Analysers' category.' 1.0.0 README states: Design and many details are based on KDirStat (). 'Christmas Release' Pacman replaces progress bar, Polish translation, localization tweaks, documentation updates, bugfixesĪdded French translation, feature tweaks, bugfixesīugfixes, added more display columns, added drive selection dialogįirst release. Spanish, Hungarian, Italian, and Czech translations. Is able to scan internal, external and networked drives.Īdded translations: Finnish, Dutch, Russian, Estonian.Each extension has its own color on the graphical map.List of detected file extensions, and the percentage of space each file extension takes up.WinDirStat is developed via Mercurial revision control. Source code is provided for all released versions on the SourceForge page in ZIP format. However, the project's blog noted that development resumed in May 2009 and some updates to the code were added in 2016. The most recent release was in September 2007 and development stopped for some time after that. The tool is still up to date and its usage is designed for all platforms. As of July 2014, it is the second most downloaded 'Filesystems' software on SourceForge with over 13,000 downloads per week. WinDirStat has been downloaded more than 9.2 million times from the official source since the original release in October 2003.

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