Comments on: CyberNotes: WinDirStat Shows What’s Hoggin’ Your Drive

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:44:52 +0000

Awesome! Thanks for posting the portable version.

By: leland

leland — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:37:06 +0000

I use TreeSize myself, though I am finding I like WinDirStat more than I used to. If they added a feature to print out the results I would dump TreeSize, but for now I keep it because it’s great for printing reports on my hard drive which are very useful when digging in the system without the need to switch between apps. Plus I can make notes on the printout as I fix the issues I find.

BTW, WinDirStat is considered to be portable though it does write some things to the registry so it’s not fully portable. For more info on this look at http://www.portablefreeware.co.....p;m=Search

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:36:57 +0000

This will run as a standalone application. Just run it straight out of the directory you unzip to.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 04:05:05 +0000

No, I don’t believe there is a portable version of this.

By: Ttech

Ttech — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 23:22:26 +0000

Ok? Is there a portable version?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:40:09 +0000

Zath wrote:

I’ve been using this program for a few months to help maintain my hard disks - it does a very good job and despite trying to organise using folders, it always amazes me what I find taking up space on my disks that I hadn’t already deleted like I thought I had done!

I had some of those things as well…the ones you thought you deleted but hadn’t. Especially some of the application installers that I didn’t need anymore.

By: Zath

Zath — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:50:21 +0000

I’ve been using this program for a few months to help maintain my hard disks - it does a very good job and despite trying to organise using folders, it always amazes me what I find taking up space on my disks that I hadn’t already deleted like I thought I had done!

By: MetaMan

MetaMan — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 03:34:04 +0000

I actually found that the graph WinDirStat generates is its most useful feature. It really puts the amount of space different things take up into perspective. This is the reason I praise it so much more highly over other, similar products.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 03:07:25 +0000

Tonino wrote:

Another option I’ve used quite succesfully is SpaceMonger.
There’s a free version (v1.4) at http://www.sixty-five.cc/sm/v1x.php
And a 30-day trial 2.1.2 at http://www.sixty-five.cc/download/

I haven’t yet used WinDirApp so I cannot compare, but spacemonger certainly helped me a lot in the past.

That does look nice, but it would be better if the latest version was free.

blaszta wrote:

I use TreeSize Free (http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml). Mostly the same tools, without nice graphic but very fast…

I’ve used that before as well, but I like the pretty graph that WinDirStat offers. What can I say…I’m a sucker for graphics.

By: blaszta

blaszta — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:21:50 +0000

I use TreeSize Free (http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml). Mostly the same tools, without nice graphic but very fast…

By: Inferno_str1ke

Inferno_str1ke — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:43:13 +0000

It’s quite pretty, but sadly most of the stuff it pointed out was stuff I can’t get rid of, like games or media files. Just need a bigger hard drive I guess. Samsung need to hurry up and give us that 30+ TB hard disk they’ve been promising.

By: Claus

Claus — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:56:38 +0000

Very nice find.

Seems to combine features in my two favorite file-space investigators/listers:

SequoiaView which provides a “squarified” tree-map like the image shown in the post and FolderSize which provides a directory listing and size calculation for your drive(s).

Both these freeware applications are portable and can run nicely off a USB stick, but your suggestion combines them both.

Thanks for the tip!

By: Tonino

Tonino — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:05:44 +0000

Another option I’ve used quite succesfully is SpaceMonger.
There’s a free version (v1.4) at http://www.sixty-five.cc/sm/v1x.php
And a 30-day trial 2.1.2 at http://www.sixty-five.cc/download/

I haven’t yet used WinDirApp so I cannot compare, but spacemonger certainly helped me a lot in the past.

By: Tinhed

Tinhed — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:37:24 +0000

I have used this software for the past three years. Very much satisfied by what it does.Especially the combination of the graph and tree view. Like i mentioned in the forums, the project does not seem to be under active development