Windirstat has a unique colour blocks to represent the various types of files and folders.

In addition showing you the capacity of file or folder and note of the colours type, the bottom of colour label are represents a file, simply click on the colour label will automatically switch to the folder, display the complete file of information. It offers you an informative visual display of your hard-drive usage. It can also analyse your local devices. Depending on the size of your disk, the initial WinDirStat scan may take quite a while, so be prepared to go grab a cup of coffee for 5 to 10 minutes. When you return, you'll see all of your files (for the drive or directory you decided to scan) displayed in a rainbow of colours. WinDirStat assigns colors to each file type, such as MP3, ZIP, EXE, JPG, and so on. By default, the files that take up the most space are colored blue, the second heftiest are red, and the third largest green. After the first 10 colour-labeled file types, the rest appear in gray–but you can change these settings and colours through the Options menu. Once you've identified where your disk space has gone, you can then more easily decide where you can save space. WinDirStat is loaded with features for managing your files, such as the ability to automatically delete files without even bothering with the Recycle Bin. 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.

"WinDirStat is a nice and easy to use graphical disk usage analyser for Microsoft Windows."

Features:

On start up, it reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in three useful 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,
• The extension list, which serves as a legend and shows statistics about the file types.

Other Key Features:

• Information about the distribution of hard disk space.
• Information about the space occupied of a folder.
• It is customizable.
• Simple and intuitive interface.
• WinDirStat is an application easy to use.
• Support in different languages.
• Manual Update.

OS requirements:
Win 95/Win 98 Se/Win Me/

Win NT4 (SP5)Win 2000/

Win 2003/Win XP/

Vista/Win 7

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