WinDirStat Provides A Visual Analysis Of Your Hard Drive Disk Space
Here Is Another Post In My Windows XP Utilities Series
WinDirStat
WinDirStat provides a visual analysis of your disk space, with quick access to adjusting it.
WinDirStat identifies how much disk space you’re using. It shows you an
informative, visual, HD usage display.
It can also analyze external devices.
The initial WinDirStat scan can take quite a while.
When the program is done and you return, you’ll see your files displayed
by colors according to file type.
By default, the order is blue, red, then green, but the Options menu can change these settings.
It’s also loaded with features for managing files.
WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows. This utility will work with all current versions of Microsoft Windows.
WinDirStat reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in three views:
The Directory List, which resembles the tree view of the Windows Explorer but is sorted by file/subtree size.
The Treemap, which shows the whole contents of the directory tree straight away.
And the Extension List, which serves as a legend and shows statistics about the file types.
The review at download.com says:
“It’s one of those apps that you didn’t know you needed until you started using it, but once installed it’s hard to imagine life without it.”
I personally am not really excited about this utility, other than the graphical display which is useful to quickly find and look at the different file types.
Other than that, I cannot see any real advantage to using this program.
However you may find it useful so here is where you can find it.
http://download.cnet.com/2701-2018_4-432-7.html?tag=page;page
If you like this program, please feel free to comment here to help my readers.
I hope you will find this helpful.
All The Best!
Terry Russell
“The Computer Doctor”
A+ Service Technician
Reliant Services 1998-2010
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