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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 →

Tonight I re-released the installer for WDS 1.1.2 once more to include the Dutch translation which I had forgotten to include in the last update from September. So if Dutch is your mother tongue and you’d like to get WinDirStat … Continue reading →

Diese Woche am die c’t 21/06 raus und WinDirStat ist auf der CD enthalten und in einem (sehr kurzen) Artikel erwähnt. Genau weil ich schon vor Wochen von einem c’t-Redakteur angeschrieben wurde, gibt es überhaupt ein deutsches Setup. // Oliver

This week c’t 21/06, a German computer magazine was published along with WinDirStat on the CD. Although the brief article misspells it as WindDirStat I am very glad it is featured there. Especially for this reason I had also prepared … Continue reading →

We are currently in search for beta-testers. The next final release will be preceded by a semi-public beta-test. I’d like anyone who is interested to reply here or contact me through the contact form on the website. There will be … Continue reading →

We’d like to thank the donators for every donation we received. If you are curious: 10% of the donations go to Sourceforge, Paypal claims a fee too and the rest will be invested into either directly project related matters (for … Continue reading →

Hi, I saw a raise in number of downloads after my announcement yesterday. However, it is not necessary to download WDS again if you already have it installed. The version contained in the re-released packages is still 1.1.2! A beta … Continue reading →

Today I made a re-release of 1.1.2. This only affects the installer and the ZIP archive. The source and consequently the binary files – inside the archives and the installer – have not been touched. As I mentioned earlier there … Continue reading →

In the last week, an article of the Chicago Tribune caused a lot of trouble. The author of the article mentioned WinDirStat, but linked to KDirStat from his article. Many of the readers tried to download the KDirStat archive, but … Continue reading →

Of the feedback we get, one of the most often asked questions is what to do with a “corrupt archive” error. The generic answer to this would be: download the file again and retry. However, I have the suspicion that … Continue reading →

Today I got a question from one of our users. As you might know it is often hard to imagine such questions for someone developing software, since developing naturally means you are very familiar with the system for which you … Continue reading →

Just wanted to collect some of the links to WinDirStat from bloggers (or similar sites) to send trackbacks to them and notify them of the existence of this blog Where there was an article, not just the link to us, … Continue reading →

In this blog the WinDirStat team is going to make announcements concerning WinDirStat releases (beta and non-beta) as well as raising issues and discussing with the WinDirStat user community. If you want to be notified of new releases please subscribe … Continue reading →