Disk Piecharter for Windows 95 and NT

A utility that shows disk usage as interactive piecharts.

Using Disk Piecharter for Windows 95

1- In the combobox at the top left, select a disk drive. Disk Piecharter starts gathering directory information; this may take some time. In the left bottom of the window you can see the directories it is reading.
2- In the left pane you will see the tree structure, in a format similar to the Explorer. This tree structure, however, only shows directories. Sorting order is by the size of the directory contents.
3- The right pane shows the piechart. Note that the piechart has only four colours: green for free space, yellow for directories and light blue for files. Plus grey (not always visible) for system space used by directories.
4- Click the left mousebutton inside one of the yellow (directory) segments of the pie to zoom in on that directory (mousecursor is a magnifying glass with a '+').
5- Click with the left mousebutton within the window (but outside the pie) to zoom out (mousecursor is a magnifying glass with a '-').
6- Click with the right mousebutton in a directory or a file segment if you want to delete it (a confirmation box will appear). This function can be disabled with the 'Enable delete' option on the Preferences dialog. For safety it will be disabled by default on installation. Note that deleted files are NOT going to the recycle-bin.
7- Alternatively, you can navigate through the directory structure using the treeview on the left. Click on a directory name to 'zoom in'. Note that the tree of that directory automatically expands. This feature can be disabled in the Preferences dialog. Also, when selecting a directory within a different branch of the tree, the previous tree will automatically collapse. Again, this feature can be disabled in the Preferences dialog.
8- Use menu option 'Refresh' or F5 to refresh the contents of the piechart if the diskcontents have changed. No automatic update occurs, so this is the only way to keep the physical disk and piechart diagram up-to-date with each other.
9- Use menu option File/Copy to make a metafile-type ('picture') copy of the piechart to the clipboard. As this is an Enhanced Metafile, the geometry depends on the size and shape of your Disk Piecharter window on the screen (I don't know why they call this behaviour 'enhanced').