Disk Space Analyzer is an independent install guide for WinDirStat. It links every installer to the official GitHub release. Official project surfaces stay on github.com/windirstat/windirstat, GitHub Releases, and windirstat.net.
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Disk Space Analyzer editorial team |
| Kind | Organization |
| Product | WinDirStat |
| License | GPL-2.0 on LICENSE.md |
| Windows command | winget install -e --id WinDirStat.WinDirStat |
| File host | GitHub Releases, same account as the repo |
| Review date | 2026-09-02 |
| Ads | Off |
Who writes these notes
The byline is Disk Space Analyzer editorial team. Kind is Organization. There is no named person on the notes, and there is no personal profile URL. The team checks the Windows winget id WinDirStat.WinDirStat against microsoft/winget-pkgs and the WinDirStat README on each review date, then updates last verified. That practice is the whole bio. The rule behind a check lives on the editorial policy. Factual drift goes through contact.
WinDirStat is a Windows disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool. A scan walks a drive or a folder, then shows a directory tree, a treemap, and a list of file types. The README also names CSV scan import and export, plus a duplicate CSV export. Settings can stay portable. There is no cloud account in the README. Those claims come from the README and the winget locale yaml, not from a guessed benchmark.
What the notes cover
Home is the short install path: paste the winget command, or open the current GitHub release and pick the Windows x64 MSI. The command is:
winget install -e --id WinDirStat.WinDirStatPackage id is WinDirStat.WinDirStat. microsoft/winget-pkgs lists InstallerType WiX and Scope machine. Installer URLs on that manifest point at GitHub Releases MSI files. Default Windows take is WinDirStat-x64.msi. ARM64 and x86 MSI files sit on the same tag as WinDirStat-arm64.msi and WinDirStat-x86.msi. Portable names are WinDirStat.zip and WinDirStat.7z. MSIX packages sit on the tag as supporting files. Default install location for x64 and ARM64 is %ProgramFiles%\WinDirStat. The README names no .NET runtime. No login. Scans stay on the PC.
Related notes match jobs people actually type. GitHub for the project is the repo and LICENSE.md. Download safely is GitHub Releases versus wrapper sites. How to install winget is App Installer on Windows 10 1809 or later and Windows 11. Releases is which asset to take, including portable zip. Versus WizTree is a same-job Windows compare. Check storage on a PC is Explorer folder Properties next to a treemap scan. Guides is the longer set. Start from home if you only need the command.
The README prints the same winget line these notes paste. It also names the Microsoft Store listing 9ph1gl95p3wf, Chocolatey choco install windirstat, and Scoop after the extras bucket. Those stay supporting paths. Prose talks about the current release rather than a frozen dotted number. Compatibility in the README covers Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, and 11, plus the Server list the README names. Build from source, if you want it, is Visual Studio 2022 and the solution in the repo. Most readers want winget or the x64 MSI.
How the notes are funded
Ads are off. Ad IDs stay empty. There is no affiliate cut on winget, GitHub, the Microsoft Store listing, Chocolatey, or Scoop. Guides are not for sale. Payment from the WinDirStat Team for a filename, a rank, or a command is absent. The advertising disclosure covers that. The privacy note matches: analytics are none, ads are off.
Signing status is left to the files you actually fetch. Notes skip inventing an Authenticode claim. Fetch stays on GitHub Releases, winget, the Microsoft Store listing the README names, Chocolatey, Scoop, or links from windirstat.net. Wrapper sites that reuse the product name are a different file. Checksums live in WinDirStat-Hashes.txt on the tag. That file is a hash list, not an installer.
How to send a correction
If a command, path, or filename here disagrees with the README or winget-pkgs, send four facts on contact: the URL that is wrong, the sentence as it stands, the official source that disagrees, and the sentence that source supports. Product bugs in WinDirStat itself belong on GitHub Issues for windirstat/windirstat. There is no public email on these notes. Last verified and the current release tag on the stamp come from GitHub at build.