http://blog.windirstat.info News and discussions around WinDirStat Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:10:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 this specifically as long as the compatibility requirements ar Windows 2000 ... http://blog.windirstat.info/20080427/poll-about-the-future-of-windirstat/ 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 able and/or willing to check it on a regular basis, ... http://blog.windirstat.info/20071201/update-detected-as-trojan/ STOPzilla, an antispyware is catching the most current WDS installation package as Zlob.YU. While one should never take this too light-hearted, the first reaction of the user who contacted me was of course rather in the direction of an accusation. Nothing wrong with that, if it would have turned out ... http://blog.windirstat.info/20071117/argh-windirstat-detected-as-trojan/ I re-released version 1.1.2 with two additional languages earlier today. Please note that I aim for a release with functional updates between around end of this year and beginning of the next year. http://blog.windirstat.info/20070902/maintenance-release/ The short answer is: yes. The long one is: there is no reason why WDS wouldn't be Vista compatible. However, depending on how you start it (elevated or not) you will not be able to see certain parts of the file system (which is just the point with the elevation model). ... http://blog.windirstat.info/20070830/is-windirstat-vista-compatible/ 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 am truly sorry to not have found it years ago. ... http://blog.windirstat.info/20070626/juggling-files-try-this/ 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 driver or other kernel mode component fails to check its ... http://blog.windirstat.info/20070623/windirstat-causing-blue-screens/ 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 Windows and the size of the sizes of files ... http://blog.windirstat.info/20070623/unknown-keeping-us-busy/ 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 again. Sorry for the annoyance :-[ // Oliver http://blog.windirstat.info/20070609/comments-suspended/ A user sent us the following registry script via the feedback mailing list. Thanks! Copy and paste it into a text file and save the text file with the file extension ".reg". Make sure to modify the path in case you have a non-english system or in case you installed WDS ... http://blog.windirstat.info/20070608/a-user-contributed-registry-script/