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Windirstat

Version: 1.1.2
Downloads Count: 59,890
License Type: Free
Price: Free
Date Added: Dec 25, 2009
Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows ME, Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows ME, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows 7
File Size: 626.0 KB
Author: http://windirstat.info/

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Editorial Review of Windirstat

Windirstat is colorful and nifty tool to check the makeup of your hard drive--especially if you're looking for immense files.

It scans your drive and produces a treemap that shows each file as a colored rectangle that's proportional to the file's size. For instance, in the attached screen capture, the big purplish blue rectangle on the left represents what seems like two billion MP3s; the green blob signifies images. Click on a filename in the left panel and it shows you where it is on the color grid below. Select a big block on the color grid and it leads you to the file. The toolbar includes buttons to zoom in on a color cluster, copy a path, open the file (or Windows Explorer), and, of course, delete files.

--Steve Bass

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Reviewed by: MikeJ
04-20-2007

Duration of ownership: 1 Days

Strengths: Very intuitive representation of huge hard drives

Weaknesses: none

Overall Evaluation: This program is EXCELLENT. The article in PC WORLD said "... a graphical depiction of the contents of your hard drive..." I hoped this would also work on a networked drive, and it did! I had recently been charged with reducing the size of a network drive that was taking up too much space on the nightly backup. I wasn't sure how to address this task until I found this program. Showing the size and type of files made identifying areas to be cleaned up very easy (I was also able to identify hundreds of .JPG files that should have never been on the network drive!!!) And as a bonus, the colorful graphical representation of 131,457 files was almost a work of art. This is a great tool and I would recommend it to all network admins.
Reviewed by: Jonosin
03-19-2007

Duration of ownership: 3 Months

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Reviewed by: Jeanneeber
03-08-2007

Duration of ownership: 0 Months

Strengths: Excellent Program!!

Weaknesses: None that I see.

Overall Evaluation: This program gives you a tree map and visualization of your entire hard drive. You can see where the files are-how large they are and you can clean out files a variety of ways. To the recycle bin-permanenently delete or by a method of your choice. I used this to clean out a secondary external hard drive that I backed up TOO extremely by error. I could veiw all the files -delete what I wanted and also empty the recycle bin from the program itself. It also shows you the types of files by color -size and type. A GREAT program!
Reviewed by: HPCGURU
03-02-2007

Duration of ownership: 1 Days

Strengths: Quickly determines and allows locating of large files for removal/relocation.

Weaknesses: So far, none. One does need to know a minimum about Windows file orgaization.

Overall Evaluation: An excellent tool for user disk management. Allows rapid locating of large files. User can determin how/when to remove relocate(or) need for more capacity. The graphical representation is excellent and can point quickly to areas of interest.

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