Questions tagged [windirstat]
WinDirStat (WDS) is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Windows
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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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Windows 11: Find and Grant read Permission for Unreadable files
I'm using WinDirStat to see how my hard drive is being used. I see 9.2 GB marked as <Unknown>. I'm assuming these are files which my Windows user can't read. I'm an administrator, and the hard ...
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What is this large system volume information file?
I'm sure this is a repeat of a question someone has asked somewhere, but I couldn't find it.
There is just one file in my system system volume information folder that is taking up literally two-thirds ...
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Compression Enabled, smaller IS expected, BUT 3,000 files, Size=25GB but Size on Disk only 5MB?
I've looked & keep finding lots of articles telling me what I already know.
I know the file size difference is because I have Compress contents to save disk space enabled.
I know about the ...
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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 ...
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WinDirStat freezes whenever I click the "Clean Up" button in the menu bar
This happens every time on my desktop, and has never happened on my laptop. I tried reinstalling and restarting multiple times. My best guess is there's a problem with my system configuration/registry/...
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Drive filling up with system and reserved files [duplicate]
I had this problem a few weeks ago where my C: drive would fill up over night. When I came to work in the morning my drive would be full, after reboot I'd about 200GB free. I tried cleaning up with ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Windirstat says my SSD is smaller than File Explorer
I have an (advertised) 256gb SSD on my laptop, which shows up as 222gb on windows file explorer. Recently, I noticed that 50gb was just missing even though nothing could have been taking up that space....
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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. ...
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Disc space doesn't add up to what "Storage" states in Windows 10
I am trying to clear some storage on my computer but I am unable to find out where or how to clear it. On the generic Windows 10 Storage page, it states that I have used 913GB out of 914GB for "This ...
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Unknown missing space on C drive
I am running Win 10 Pro and have a Samsung SSD850EVO 500GB drive as my C drive. My used space normally shows 107GB however for some reason it now shows used space as 240GB. I have run Windirstat and a ...
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How can I get read access to *all* files on my harddisk? [duplicate]
Recently I had a full harddisk and needed to delete some files. I used WinDirStat to see where the big files are.
Afterwards I remembered that I had a 5GB Microsoft SQL Server database backup ...
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My PC has "invisible" files that take up 100GB+ of space [duplicate]
I have a Lenovo T460 (with a 256GB SSD), and it is almost full even though I only have around 120GB of files on it. I tried using WinDirStat, but it only showed the files that I already knew about, ...
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how setup windirstat to show folder size in Gb?
I have installed windirstat and it show folder size in Kb. Is there a way to setuop it for showing size in Gb?
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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Used space on Disk C: doesn't match actual used space [duplicate]
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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