WizTree
Identify the data vacuums on your hard drive with pinpoint precision very, very quickly.
- Free Personal • Proprietary
- Windows
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WizTree scans your entire hard drive and shows you which files and folders are using the most disk space. It does this VERY QUICKLY. In fact, we believe WizTree to be the fastest application of this type currently available! Use the information WizTree provides to quickly locate and remove "space hogs" from your hard drive.
Features
* Finds the files and folders using the most space on your hard drive
* Work VERY Fast! We think it's the fastest application of this type in the world!
* Finds the top 1000 largest files on your hard drive
* Sort the contents of your entire hard drive by folder size and optionally delete files and folders
How does it work?
WizTree reads the hard drive's Master File Table (MFT) directly from the disk. The MFT is a special hidden file used by the NTFS file system to keep track of all files and folders on a hard drive. It's very fast because scanning for files this way completely bypasses the operating system (Windows).
Why are some of my drives not selectable?
WizTree obtains information by directly scanning the the MFT file, so it can only work with local (directly attached) drives formatted with the NTFS file system. It won't work with network drives, substituted drives or non NTFS formatted drives. We may add support for other drive types in the future if there's enough demand.
Features
* Finds the files and folders using the most space on your hard drive
* Work VERY Fast! We think it's the fastest application of this type in the world!
* Finds the top 1000 largest files on your hard drive
* Sort the contents of your entire hard drive by folder size and optionally delete files and folders
How does it work?
WizTree reads the hard drive's Master File Table (MFT) directly from the disk. The MFT is a special hidden file used by the NTFS file system to keep track of all files and folders on a hard drive. It's very fast because scanning for files this way completely bypasses the operating system (Windows).
Why are some of my drives not selectable?
WizTree obtains information by directly scanning the the MFT file, so it can only work with local (directly attached) drives formatted with the NTFS file system. It won't work with network drives, substituted drives or non NTFS formatted drives. We may add support for other drive types in the future if there's enough demand.
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OS & Utilities • File ManagementPlatform details
Windows: All versions of Windows from Windows 2000 onwards
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- treemap
- largest-files
- space-usage
- size-scanner
- maintenance
- filesystem-utility
- disk-usage
- disk-space
- disk-space-usage
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Our users have written 19 comments and reviews about WizTree, and it has gotten 122 likes
- Developed by Antibody Software
- Proprietary and Free Personal product.
- One time purchase (perpetual license) ranging between $10 and $500.
- Average rating of 4.3
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View allWizTree was added to AlternativeTo by Dabbles on Nov 27, 2012 and this page was last updated Mar 7, 2021.
Note that recent search tools have been integrated into this program that are especially exciting but I'll focus on what I mostly use the program for: tracking down space hogs. Everytime I have a drive filling up too quickly, it helps to first look at what's standing in my way of a few gigs of space. Often it's a temporary file or a program / folder I'm never going to use again. WizTree helps me track down and zap those quickly. I love it.
Scanning was extremely fast even on a network share -- about 100 times faster than Windirstat.
After having used Windirstat for "decades" as the best disk usage visualization tool by far, I must say that WizTree is probably the #1 tool to beat now.
On Windirstat, only the Treemap looks a tiny bit more polished on HiDPI screens, because you can make Windirstat show the colored 'file pillows' with a black grid.
The Windirstat look:
https://i.imgur.com/3Btkbl6.jpg
Same folder in WizTree look:
https://i.imgur.com/uruTpoA.jpg
Also, when comparing the two Treemaps, in WizTree there seems to be something cut off at the bottom.
Other than that, WizTree seems to be perfect.
Best out of the 5 alternatives i have tried, imo.
The best of all: to scan the same huge dir it takes only 1 sec VS 30 secs of other "professional" and freeware alternatives!
Free, Fast speed, multiple view such as tree view, tree map, extension view, file view