Q844864
Sign in to saveWinDirStat is a free and open-source graphical disk usage analyzer for Microsoft Windows. It presents a sub-tree view with disk-use percentage alongside a usage-sorted list of file extensions that is interactively integrated with a colorful graphical display (a treemap). Created as an open-source project released under the GNU GPL, it was developed using Visual C++/MFC and distributed using GitHub. The project was inspired by SequoiaView, an application based on research done by the Visualization Section of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Technische Universiteit Eindhove
Key facts
- Software.name
- WinDirStat
- Software.logo
- WinDirStat Logo color.svg
- Software.logo size
- 125px
- Software.screenshot
- WinDirStat_2.0.1.png
- Software.screenshot size
- 300px
- Software.caption
- WinDirStat 2.2.2
- Software.developer
- Bernhard Seifertm, Oliver Schneider, Bryan Berns
- Software.latest_release_version
- 2.5.0
- Software.operating_system
- Windows
- Software.size
- 4.5 MB
- Software.genre
- Disk space analyzer
- Software.license
- GNU GPLv2
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WinDirStat is a free and open-source graphical disk usage analyzer for Microsoft Windows. It presents a sub-tree view with disk-use percentage alongside a usage-sorted list of file extensions that is interactively integrated with a colorful graphical display (a treemap). Created as an open-source project released under the GNU GPL, it was developed using Visual C++/MFC and distributed using GitHub. The project was inspired by SequoiaView, an application based on research done by the Visualization Section of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.
== Popularity == WinDirStat was downloaded more than 9 million times from the official source since its original release in October 2003 through 2011. As of August 2024, it was the third most downloaded "Filesystems" software on SourceForge, with more than 54,000 downloads per week.
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