WinDirStat is a program that allows you to find drive space hogs at a glance. It achieves that by displaying a drive, drives or directories in a treemap that assigns bigger areas to bigger files and directories. Making those areas visually separate by coloring and other means allows you to see literally at a glance what the space hogs are and where to dig deeper.
The directory tree is simultaneously shown as a tree list and as a treemap. One can effortlessly gain an impression of the proportions on the drive(s).
For more information on the background of WinDirStat and alternative versions on other operating systems, please visit the WinDirStat website
Three views: Directory Tree, Treemap, and Extension
Duplicate file detection
Built-in cleanup actions including Open, Delete, Show Properties
User-defined cleanup actions (command line based)
For changes in recent versions, please check out the change log.
Install it by downloading the appropriate version for your system from the release page
Install with winget install -e --id WinDirStat.WinDirStat
(or use winget upgrade
subsequently)
Alternatively install with scoop install extras/windirstat
(requires scoop bucket add extras
)
Copyright © 2003-2005 Bernhard Seifert ([email protected])
Copyright © 2004-2024 WinDirStat Team (windirstat.net)
The application itself is distributed under the terms of the GPL v2, but parts of the source code are also available under more lenient license terms.
Note: you are not at liberty to upgrade the GPL version to anything later than v2 at this moment.
The logo and all derivatives are available under the terms of the Creative Commons license CC BY 3.0.
WinDirStat can be built with Visual Studio 2022 or later. A Visual Studio solution file can be loaded from windirstatWinDirStat.sln
.
You can contribute by responding to issues, developing source code, or developing translations.
To see a list of contributors, please check out the contributors page.
WinDirStat 2.x has been developed for and tested on the following operating systems. They may work on older or newer operating systems but are not supported.
Windows 7
Windows 8
Windows 8.1
Windows 10
Windows 11
Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2022
Windows Server 2025
The logo was generously designed and contributed to the project by Robin "tuqueque" Marín. Follow him on Twitter/X @tuquequeorg.
A website
A blog
Twitter/X as @windirstat
SubReddit r/WinDirStat
Find a more up-to-date list of resources on the website and the blog at any point in time.