Software-update: WinDirStat 2.9.0

WinDirStat is een opensourceprogramma voor Windows wat de inhoud van de harde schijf in kaart kan brengen om zo bijvoorbeeld hele grote bestanden of mappen op te sporen, of duplicaten. Ook kan het acties starten om de harde schijf op te schonen, te controleren op fouten of om bestanden te comprimeren. Het programma kan van de website zelf worden opgehaald, maar het kan ook via de Windows Store of diverse package-managers worden geïnstalleerd. Versie 2.8.0 is uitgekomen en hier zijn de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen in aangebracht:

Enhancements

• Added selection of multiple individual folders
• Added scanning support for MTP portable devices
• Added volume / free space stats for administrative share drive paths
• Added size proportion tooltips showing percentages of the total scan and parent folder
• Added configurable font / toolbar scaling with Windows text size support
• Added support for an arbitrary number of custom cleanups
• Added greater-than / less-than comparisons for file size and age exclusions
• Added style presets for treemap visualization
• Added cancellation support while loading NTFS MFT records
• Added optional sparse hashing for duplicate detection in files over 64 MiB
• Added live path filtering with regular expressions in File Watcher
• Added search filters for size ranges, item type, and owner
• Added size totals for search results
• Added option to display seconds in timestamps
• Added deleted file recovery for NTFS and exFAT volumes
• Added free / unknown space labels to sunburst and flame graphs
• Added option to exclude Dropbox "ignored" files and folders
• Added Arabic translation
• Added Hindi translation for the application and installer
• Improved hardlink processing performance and memory usage
• Improved scanning, tree update, and file watcher performance through batched updates
• Improved duplicate file and largest file tracking performance using incremental updates
• Improved memory usage and responsiveness in Permissions and Storage Analytics views
• Reduced memory usage for large scans and tree views
• Improved visualization backgrounds and placeholders to match light and dark modes
• Improved Advanced settings page layout
• Improved legacy Windows OS compatibility when using modern build tools
• Improved Simplified Chinese translation
• Improved Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong) translation
• Improved Italian translation
• Improved translation grammar and keyboard mnemonics across supported languages
• Migrated the UI framework from MFC to native Win32/GDI (reduced executable size)

Bug Fixes

• Corrected hardlink deduplication overwriting files for multiple selected hash groups
• Corrected hardlink size accounting and references after refreshing or removing files
• Corrected size proportion sorting with Pacman animation size modes
• Corrected inflated sizes for WSL pseudo-files accessed through network shares
• Corrected clipped comparison controls in filtering settings
• Corrected progress dialog flickering during text updates
• Corrected toolbar buttons displaying unrelated tooltip text
• Corrected a crash when requesting administrator elevation
• Corrected lost scan settings after administrator restart
• Corrected crashes on custom cleanup errors
• Corrected scan completion stalls during memory cleanup
• Corrected Remove Empty Folders potentially removing reparse point targets
• Corrected folder counts and zoom state after removing multi-root scan targets
• Corrected invalid attributes being lost when loading CSV/JSON results
• Corrected WinGet upgrades for MSI installations using non-English locales
• Corrected language IDs and text encoding in localized MSI installers
• Corrected opening properties for "This PC" items
• Corrected directory enumeration in recursive user-defined cleanups
• Corrected directory modification timestamps being overwritten during parallel scans
• Corrected potential race condition when releasing MFT indexes during scan cancellation
• Corrected unresponsive drives blocking drive selection and elevated drive mapping
• Corrected extensions pane remaining collapsed when restored
• Corrected folder expansion during active scans
• Corrected indentation for deeply nested directories
• Corrected Permissions view actions to resolve items in the current scan
• Corrected pending File Watcher operations being released before cancellation completes
• Corrected NTFS file references losing their sequence numbers
• Corrected shadow copy menu when running without administrator privileges
• Restored support for volume path formats

Versienummer	2.9.0
Releasestatus	Final
Besturingssystemen	Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Windows 11, Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2025
Website	WinDirStat
Download	https://windirstat.net/download.html
Licentietype	GPL

Reacties (6)

[guillaume]

Added deleted file recovery for NTFS and exFAT volumes

Werkt nog behoorlijk goed ook. Ik ben niet echt bekend met undelete/recovery tools en SSD's met Trim, omdat ik er eigenlijk wel vanuit ging dat dat nauwelijks iets zou opleveren (i.t.t. bij mechanische schijven en SD-kaartjes), maar dat is toch niet helemaal waar dus.

[Reactie gewijzigd door guillaume op 27 september 2026 18:11]

[koelpasta]

Ik gebruikte windirstat vroeger maar het is tergend traag met het scannen.
Jaren geleden overgestapt op wiztree die ontzettend veel sneller scant.
Daarna nooit meer omgekeken naar windirstat...

[ManIkWeet]

Kijk maar weer naar WinDirStat dan, want dat hebben ze gefixt. En het zit niet vol met "sponsor mij!" tranentrek teksten

[koelpasta]

Hmm,. Net getest en het schiet inderdaad eindelijk op. Het is zelfs een beetje sneller dan wiztree. Mijn verbazing is gewekt!

[Hakker]

Klopt sinds 2.4 of 2.5 hebben ze MFT scannen voor NTFS toegevoegd. Nu is het wel zo dat vol zitten met sponsor mij is bij Wiztree nu niet het geval. het is 1 blokje rechts bovenin en meer niet.

[Ricco02]

“Vroeger” nu is het net zo snel als WizTree.