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  1. Why does WinDirStat report less space used than Windows does?

    May 20, 2015 · WinDirStat, manual inspection, and any other storage consumption analysis tool report 46GB of data on the drive when launched from a copy of Windows running on the SSD. …

  2. WinDirStat shows 244GB unknown space on external drive

    Aug 30, 2015 · 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 …

  3. Newest 'windirstat' Questions - Super User

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

  4. How can I visualize the file system usage on Windows?

    WinDirStat is a port of KDirStat for Linux. It's free, lightweight, small (650kb installer), fast, portable (as a standalone .exe file), and works on multiple versions of Windows. Besides …

  5. Windirstat says my SSD is smaller than File Explorer

    Sep 20, 2020 · So, I used windirstat to show me what was wrong, and it's telling me my disk is only 164gb, not 222. That seems to be why I have so much missing space. Here's what my file …

  6. disk space - Is it surprising that WinDirStat takes a long time to ...

    WinDirStat has not been updated for a very long time. I have no doubt its routines could be improved to support more modern hardware. In the end you are still attempting to perform an …

  7. 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 ...

  8. How to exclude folders from WinDirStat scan? - Super User

    Sep 23, 2019 · These folders substantially slow down the WinDirStat file tree scan. Instead of attempting to persuade an extremely outdated utility to work efficiently, I recommend switching …

  9. windows 7 - WinDirStat Save Report Option - Super User

    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 an...

  10. Some files still remain in $RECYCLE.BIN - Super User

    Jul 23, 2018 · I have deleted those folders within WinDirStat, everything ok, hope didn't do anything wrong. Freed up 11 gigs of storage.