Windirstat is a tool used to list, print disk, file, and folder size and related statistics on Windows operating systems. Actually, Windirstat is a clone of the Kdirstat which is developed for Linux distributions for KDE desktop environment where the
K came from. The latest version of the WinDirStat is 1.1.2.80 which is released January 28, 2019. Windirstat can also clean up different types of files and directories easily.
As stated Windirstat is the alternative for the KDirStat or QDirStat in Linux, Disk Inventory or GrandPerspective in MacOSX.
Features
The combination of Windows’ own Storage settings and WinDirStat might not magically clean up your hard drive, but they’ll help you make an informed decision on what to keep and what to delete. Manually clean up your files. If you are extremely keen with your storage space, then you can also manually delete and clean up unwanted and unused files to clean up some space for you. One good tip is to check your Downloads folder. Right-click the folder first and check how much space it is consuming and then go and scan from there.
We will examine the features of WinDirStat in detail below but here is a shortlist for the features of the WinDirStat.
Stan shows an easy way to see and clean the files that are hogging hard drive space in the computer using a free software called 'windirtstat'. Now enter the following address in the web browser 'windirtstat.info' and scroll down the page until you get the downloading and installing section. Click on the link 'windirtstat1.1.2Setup(Ansi&Unicode)' which will be right after the 'for all flavors. To get started, download and install WinDirStat.Go with the recommended installation. Select the drive you want to evaluate, or 'all drives' if you have multiple hard disks.
Download WinDirStat
WinDirStat can be downloaded from the main site and also mirrors like FossHub, SourceForge, and Triple. Below you can select one of the links to download WinDirStat. For this case, we will select
Latest installer which is version 1.1.2.
Install WinDirStat
We will use regular
Next and Next install steps. When we click the setup file we will see following screen first.
In the second screen, we will see the following screen where some installation options are provided. We can set or unset to create a desktop shortcut, languages etc.
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In this step, we will specify the installation destination folder which is
C:Program FilesWinDirStat .
Following screen the final step of the WinDirStat installation where we can run it by checking
Run WinDirStat checkbox.
Scanning Drive and Folders
In order to print some information about the drive, directory, and files we need to scan specified drives, directories and files. We can scan for 3 different type which is
File and Director Scan Results
When the scan is completed we will see a screen like below. There is 3 pane where directory list, file extensions and graphics are displayed. In this first pane following information is provided.
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In the second pane following information about file extension or types and size is provided.
The last pane which resides in the bottom of the two panes will provide a graphical representation of all file and directory types. The colors used to represent different files and file extensions or types.
As an example, we can see that
Windows directory is the biggest directory where its size is 7.7 GB in this example and contains 55,479 items where 46,421 of them are files and 9,058 of them are subdirectories.
Delete File or DirectoryWindirstat On Remote Machine
During the file and directory size inspection, we can find some unneeded files in order to delete or remove. We can delete these files and directories from the WinDirStat directly. There are 3 ways to delete a file or directory. First, we can right-click to the file or directory we want to delete which will open a menu which contains two
Delete option.
We can also use keyboard shortcuts
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We can also use the toolbar where there are two icons like below.
WinDirStat Alternatives In Windows
Even WinDirStat provides greate features there are some alternative which are very usefull like WinDirStat too. Below we will list some alternatives which provides similar functions to the WinDirStat.
SpaceSniffer provides similar functions to the WinDirStat where big difference is SpaceSniffer does not contains directory list. But SpaceSniffer provides more useful GUI than the WinDirStat.
TreeSize is another alternative to WinDirStat. TreeSize provides simpler user interface and usage. It provides most of the WinDirStat features but doesn’t have extension. TreeSize has modern looking ribbon-style interface which makes it more stylish on the Windows 10. TreeSize has 3 versions where TreeSize Free comes without a cost and TreeSize Personal and TreeSize Professional provides more features for a cost.
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