Author Archives: Oliver

The company behind STOPzilla doesn’t seem to deem it necessary to react on a false positive report from someone who hasn’t bought their software. This means it could be that their software still detects WinDirStat and since I am not … Continue reading →

I have to confess, I fell in love recently. Sounds weird? Right, it gets even more weird if I tell you that I fell in love with a file manager. The file manager is called Speed Commander (SC) and I … Continue reading →

Several users had contacted us and claimed that WDS caused their systems to show the dreaded BSOD. As a driver developer I know that this is impossible since no user mode program can crash the system with BSOD unless some … Continue reading →

As before, the item keeps us busy. Last week a user contacted us through the blog and later through email and chat as suggested. As you know, the item just shows the discrepancies between the used disk space reported by … Continue reading →

Thanks to the ever-increasing amount and frequency of spam-comments, I removed the option for comments for now. However, I’ll attempt to work out a fix (possibly similar to the fix I use in the UVNC forum) and then enable it … Continue reading →

Regarding the topic that is being asked for most often. Use the following approaches: Run a file system check on the file system (read: drive/partition) in question. E.g. chkdsk /f X:. You’ll have to have admin privileges and if this … Continue reading →

If the comment-spam is an indicator for the popularity of this blog, then this blog is extra-ordinarily popular.

… via the feedback mailing list: Good Day! I found it interesting and decided to contact you for a business transaction. Be so kind to contact me at your earliest convenience for a possible business deal involving money transfer of … Continue reading →

A happy new year to everyone. May it be peaceful and full of health, fun and love for you and yours. Thanks to those users sending a personal mail with best wishes. // Oliver

Hi, the WDS feedback mailing list is going to be moderated from now on. This decision was made since we finally get more spam than useful messages on this mailing list. Not moderating it means positive, rather than negative, feedback … Continue reading →

I have a request to the developers among our users. If you would write a plugin for WDS, which functionality would you like to provide to the users? …this question aims to find out which hooks to provide. Also if … Continue reading →

Today WinDirStat was featured on the Japanese website “Windows Forest” today. Although I don’t know any Japanese it looks as if they like it In case one of you is Japanese and you want a Japanese translation in long-term, please … Continue reading →

Occasionally people install (or run) WDS from a network drive/share. The HTML help file viewer of Windows, however, is configured so that it restricts all HTML content over the network, including these types of resources. Consequently the viewer will show … Continue reading →

WDS shows a certain item labelled “<Unknown>” and recently someone posted a comment asking for details: i think it would be nice to put in the faq or in help or in some docs what’s in the “unknown” space sometimes … Continue reading →