Solve Your Hard Disk Mysteries With WinDirStat
10 January, 2008 | 2 comments | Published under Blog | 266 views
Few days ago, I wrote a post about Paint.NET, the amazing opensource graphics editing program meant for Windows operating system. After I wrote that, I realized I’ve gotten in love with opensource applications so here I am bringing you another nifty program: WinDirStat!
To tell you: WinDirStat is not new, but probably this could be the first time you heard about this program. WinDirStat basically will solve your hard disk mysteries by letting you see your hard disk’s contents in a “bird-eye” view. If ever wondered where your space has gone off or if you want to know which file is eating your space away, this program will help you identify it. Yes, no more hard disk mysteries, bar none.
The first screen you’ll encounter is the hard disk selection (shown in a list above). You will see multiple entries if you have more than one hard disk drives. In my case I only have one, and there is less than three gigabytes remaining space on my 80 GB laptop hard disk drive. This is where the mystery kicks in: how come my hard disk is almost full? I will let WinDirStat solve this for me.
While the program is analyzing my hard disk, a cute Pacman-looking image runs back and forth (it replaces the typical progress bar I expected to see). After the analysis, you would see a colorful graphics chart representing the size of files in your hard disk. Big squares mean big file sizes and small ones are usually simple word documents or link library files in your operating system. Clicking specifically on a square will let you know the filename and file size – thus, revealing the truth of the hard disk mystery. Nice, isn’t it?
Now, WinDirStat can be downloaded for only 630 kilobytes – yes, just like that. It’s free but useful utility. It runs on all Windows systems (it works OK on Windows Vista). You can visit WinDirStat’s official website here.
Click here to download WinDirStat.
Try this program and drop a comment after you see for yourself how great it is. Two thumbs up!
2 Comments »
CatherineL
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Thanks – no matter what size of hard drive I get, the space just seems to disappear. Hopefully this tool will help me see where it’s going.
John Raul II
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Yes, I agree with you, Cath. I used to have 120 GB hard disk and it appears in Windows XP that the only available space is approximately between 113 GB to 115 GB. The missing space is actually used by the operating system for its file system information storage.
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