Open Source: WinDirStat

More Open Source goodness. WinDirStat

OK this one comes with a serious “WARNING. WARNING. Will Robinson…. DANGER DANGER”.

WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows. It reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in a bunch of useful views:

• The directory list, which resembles the tree view of the Windows Explorer but is sorted by file/subtree size
• The treemap, which shows the whole contents of the directory tree straight away
• The extension list, which serves as a legend and shows statistics about the file types

The picture at left gives you an idea of what it will look like. It is a really powerful and useful program. But you can do a lot of damage with it.

Remember ‘WinDirStat doesn’t kill hard drives… people kill hard drives”. I can’t believe I just wrote that. Oh yeah I am SO going to hell

Update: Have a look in the Comments at Marco’s blog. As well as writing his own (Treepie) there are some other programs listed in the same theme.