Category Archives: Feedback

Happy new year – new video featuring WinDirStat

Hey folks, a happy new year to the lot of you and check out this video featuring WinDirStat. // Oliver

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Please vote

Hi folks, please vote on the Bitbucket issue tracker for issues and features. If I see a trend there, I’ll probably prioritize according to it. // Oliver

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Reddit: /r/WinDirStat

Find it here. The link is also in the link list in the sidebar. // Oliver

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Would you like a forum and/or a Wiki?

Hey folks, being users of WinDirStat and perhaps having contacted me through the contact form or other means, would you like to see a Wiki and or forum for WinDirStat instead of merely the trackers and the mailing list (which … Continue reading

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Cleanup actions, who uses them right now?

Hi folks, who of you uses the cleanup actions or even created their own? How complex are they? How difficult would it be for you if they got replaced? I suppose I would provide some rather trivial migration path, but … Continue reading

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WinDirStat icons

Hi folks, tuqueque sent me the logo project just recently. So tonight I sat down to play a bit with what we got. Since I’m not quite so brilliant with graphics, I had to rely on a little help from … Continue reading

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Another logo proposal

Hi folks, here is another logo proposal from Venezuela. Frankly, I find it more original than the logo suggested by Storm!. In a strange way it condenses the meaning of what WinDirStat does into a symbol. However, I found there … Continue reading

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Splash screen and logo

Hi everyone, Storm! has joined the team and provided us with a new logo and splash screen. Have a look. And please comment: // Oliver pier

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Need feedback

So far WDS has proven to be fairly stable, but there are people who claim to have seen mysterious crashes every now and then. Now my question: if I was to implement a method in WDS that allows me to … Continue reading

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C’mon, keep it real guys

Recently I got an email asking for a trimmed down English-only version of WinDirStat. To be honest I was quite flabbergasted and upset. After all both developers involved in WinDirStat are native Germans, so why not make it a light … Continue reading

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Exploring …

After a user has provided feedback with a potential way of increasing the speed of a scan manifold, I’m currently exploring the USN journal as well as using the MFT (on NTFS drives only) in order to enumerate the contents … Continue reading

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More FOSS-like release-cycle

When the project was still under Bernhard’s rule, he was always going to release only versions that had passed his test plan. I hope to break this tradition soon and release more often and release earlier. My goal is to … Continue reading

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Translations in XML

Hi, just wanted to let everyone know that I am currently working out a format for what’s now the resource scripts in XML. You can find a first draft version in revision 174 in the Subversion repository. As you can … Continue reading

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WinDirStat fan art

Just recently Bernhard received fan art, from a WinDirStat fan and forwarded it to me. We got the permission to put it up on the website by the author, so I am doing this now and here. The image (thumbnail … Continue reading

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Poll about the future of WinDirStat

Good news first. Development on WinDirStat has officially resumed. Now the question. I know as a matter of fact that there is demand for a 64bit version of WinDirStat. However, since 64bit implies Unicode, there is no need to handle … Continue reading

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