Analyze Disk Space Usage
WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows. The program comes in two variants:
How WinDirStat helps
WinDirStat reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in three useful views:
How to use WinDirStat
Download WinDirStat by clicking on the download link provided at the end of the article and save the file. the file will be saved to your computer Now, locate the installation file and double click on the file Next, click ‘Run’; accept the license and click ‘Next’. Continue clicking the ‘Next’ button of each wizard until the application gets installed completely. Finally, start the program. On startup, WinDirStat scans the selected directories. Here you can select all Drives or Individual drives for scanning. If you want to select more than one, just click on the drive. The scan is then presented in three useful views (as mentioned above) Once the scanning is complete you can delete a file by simply highlighting it and clicking on ‘Clean Up’ from the Toolbar. Here, you will be offered various options. For instance, you can choose to open the file, open Explorer, open a Command Prompt, Delete (to Recycle Bin), permanently Delete the file or Empty the Recycle Bin WinDirStat is compatible with all the version of the Windows operating system Besides this, WinDirStat is free software published under the GNU General Public License and is available in multiple languages (English, Spanish, German, Czech, etc). It can be downloaded from here. Read next: Hard drive full? How to find the largest files on Windows 10?
