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WinDirStat (WDS) is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Windows

WinDirStat (WDS) is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Windows. It shows disk, file and directory sizes in a treelist as well as graphically in a treemap, much like KDirStat or SequoiaView.

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WinDirStat shows 244GB unknown space on external drive

I recently noticed that one of my external hard drive seems to be missing a lot of space. It was recommended that I try WinDirStat, as it could help identify how much space each file was taking up. This is the result: As you can see, there is…
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Chrome Using 7.6GB of Disk Space. Has a File 5.9GB that hasn't been Accessed for 92 Days

I just ran WinDirStat and noticed that Google Chrome is using tons of disk space. One file in particular is 5.9GB and hasn't been modified since July 11, 2013, its name is just: 00000001 What is this file? Why was it created? And is it safe to…
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WinDirStat Save Report Option

When running WinDirStat against a drive, I'd like the option to save the report so that I can look at it later while "offline" away from the system it was run on. I've looked around the program and can't see this option. Am I missing something, can…
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Can I delete files from C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\AppData\Local\PeerDistRepub\Store\0?

C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\AppData\Local\PeerDistRepub\Store\0 This directory contains many, many .dat files which use ~33% of my 500GB disk space. I found this using WinDirStat. The question in this post is similar, but refers to…
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WinDirStat sees files that are not there - what's wrong?

I've been running WinDirStat to clean up my harddrive. One folder it reports as consisting of 2GB files, and it's also showing these files, but using explorer or the command line, there is nothing there. I've run CHKDSK /F /V /R 2 times, but it does…
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How to exclude folders from WinDirStat scan?

During the lifetime of a typical computer, many folders are static in their contents. For example, a program like Matlab, loaded with some toolboxes, is installed once and seldom changes ever after. It takes a large amount of disk space, but more…
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How can one load 2 CSV in WinDirStat so that they appear in the same WinDirStat window?

I have several disks saved in separate CSV files. How can I load 2 CSV in WinDirStat so that they appear in the same WinDirStat window? To load one CSV in WinDirStat:
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Occupied HDD space not correlating in Windows 10

I have a 1-TB HDD and I decided to delete all the junk files after realizing there were only a couple of GBs of space left: I used WinDirStat, to list all the folders and files in the directory and their size, but it marked they were only occupying…
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Cyclic Variation of SSD free disk space: WinDirStat results

When I first start my PC it says I have only have 1.1 GB free space! However when I restart it says 11.4 GB, if I then restart again it goes back to 1.1GB and so on. The actual figures are getting smaller over time but then difference is fairly…
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Used space on Disk C: doesn't match actual used space

Used space on Disk C: doesn't match actual used space. Difference is around 30 GB. Results of chkdsk: 116859903 KB total disk space. 70064692 KB in 249924 files. 135696 KB in 53311 indexes. 0 KB in bad sectors. …
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Windows shows 150GB less than Chkdsk

Windows is reporting 199GB free when CHKDSK reports ~350GB free. The drive in question is a 1TB SSD that was my former Windows drive. I have run disk check and checked for shadows. How can I reclaim that disk space? WinDirSat and TreeSize (Click…
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Is it surprising that WinDirStat takes a long time to analyze 8TB drive?

I just installed WinDirStat to figure out why a NAS seems to be filling up faster than expected. The NAS is mounted as a drive on my Windows 7 machine, and 7TB of its 8TB are full so I want to find the biggest folders and files. It took WinDirStats…
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I barely have free space in the system partition but I should have much more (Windows 8.1)

At work I have a computer with two hard drives, a 60 GB SSD as the system partition and a 300GB HDD as a data partition. The SSD is almost full or at least that's what I can see in the disk manager and the file explorer. But when I select all the…
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What are those huge one-letter files in Windows folder?

I used WinDirStat to display my hd content to find what take so much space. I found that there are five files of 15.9 GB in C:\Windows folder. Does someone know what are those files? Can I delete them?
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Is it possible to modify the colours in windirstat for the file extensions?

While using windirstat, the file types are coloured according to their extension. Is it possible modifying that list? (Add file extensions, add colours, ...)
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