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How to use WinDirStat to analyze and clean up the hard disk space status?

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Last updated: 2019-10-22

Software introduction

WinDirStat is a tool for analyzing and cleaning the space state of hard disk on Windows platform. Through this tool, you can analyze the state of the specified hard disk partition space. After the analysis, different files are displayed according to color and size, which provides a very intuitive maneuverability for cleaning up files to free space.

Download address

Download the green version of the network disk (for users who do not have administrator privileges):

Download address: https://pan.baidu.com/s/1YMVz_mHa0_scEt9p0IXklw&shfl=sharepset

Extraction code: yyxx official website download address: https://windirstat.net/download.html

instructions

1. Download and install

Press the default full installation after download:

two。 Run the software to analyze the hard disk

After running the software, you can select the entire hard drive or one of the partitions for analysis:

After the analysis:

Sort the data occupancy size from large to small in place 1, and specify different colors according to the file type. For example, the 25G data file ranked first is blue in 2 places according to the defined color. The size of the data file is intuitively expressed by shape size. After clicking the shape identified by color in 2 places, it will dynamically locate the specific path where the data file is located in 3 places.

3. Clean up data files

Take the analysis of blue, which ranks first in the occupied space, for example, when the mouse clicks on 2 places of blue, it will locate the path of the data file in 3 places. This is an iPhone automatic backup file that can be deleted. Right-click Backup and select Delete (no way to undelete!) Make a complete deletion to release space immediately:

After deletion, check that the space of disk C has been released successfully:

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