TreeSize Professional 5 is a powerful and flexible hard disk space manager for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista. TreeSize Professional 5 will help you to find out which folders are the largest dissipaters on your drives and to recover megabytes of disk space.

Changes in version 5.0:

• It is now possible to group scans under a virtual root folder. This virtual root folder shows a summary of all scans that are part of this group. This way you can merge different scans together e.g. for printing or exporting. You can access this feature through the context menu of a root folder or through the "Tools" menu.
• A new kind of chart called treemap has been added. It shows a hierarchical view of the file system. In this treemap chart each folder is shown as a rectangle with its subfolders inside, again as rectangles.
• The list on the "Extensions" tab can now be grouped by file types like "Audio Files", "Video Files", "System Files", etc. This feature can be turned on or off by a new toolbar button.
• The tabs "Extensions", "Users" and "File Ages" now have a feature "List Files" that generates a list of files of the selected item.
• The selected items in the various file and directory lists of TreeSize now show the selection using a style similar to Windows Vista. This makes colored text and the small embedded charts easier to read.
• The TreeSize column for the Windows Explorer is now also supported on 64Bit systems. The .NET Framework 2.0 is required on 64Bit systems for the column to work. Unfortunately a Microsoft employee confirmed that such an additional Explorer column won't be possible under Windows Vista.
• The number of decimals can now be set in the View menu instead of the "Options" dialog.
• The gradient colors of the optional indicator bars in the tree can now be chosen in the "Options" dialog.
• In the Options dialog you can now change the maximum number of threads that TreeSize Professional 5 creates for each scan. Like before TreeSize Professional 5 will still adjust the number of threads to the current system load and so often create less threads than the maximum number.
• In the Options it is now possible to customize the intervals that are used to generate the chart on the "File Ages" tab.
• TreeSize Professional 5 has a new option that allows taking hard links and alternate data streams into account when calculating disk space, which produces more accurate results. However this makes it necessary to open the files and therefore slows down a scan.
• The "View" menu now allows switching to plain Byte values.
• The Excel, Text and HTML export options now allow to specify whether or not units like "KB", "MB" or "%" should be added to exported values. By omitting units the thousands separators will also be omitted, which simplifies further processing of exported values. This replaces the former option File / Export / Use plain numbers.
• The command line options /FILEAGESCHART and /HISTORYCHART have been added. They allow to save the charts on the "History" and the "File Ages" chart.
• The new command line option /TOPFILESLIST allows exporting the top 100 files list.
• The columns of the "Copy list of files" feature are now determined by the settings for the "Text Export" in the "Options" dialog of TreeSize
• The executable has been renamed to "TreeSize.exe".
• The support for Windows 98 and ME has been dropped. Registered customers are still able to download the Windows 98/ME compatible TreeSize V4 from our customers area.
• New application icon.

File Search:

• An additional search type "Custom Search" has been added. This search type allows you to freely define and combine search criteria like file name, date, size, attributes and owner. The results can be printed or exported like you are used from the other available search types.
• Now entire servers, entire domains or even your entire network can be searched. TreeSize automatically browses for PCs and all shares on them (including hidden shares) and performs the search on all shares that it finds.
• Improved multithreading support, especially for the MD5 checksum calculation, which should produce results faster on multi-core machines.
• It is now possible to export and import the results as simple paths only (DIR /B /S format). This simplifies post-processing of TreeSize results and allows to import lists of paths in TreeSize.
• It is now possible to pass an XML file to the TreeSize File Search on the command line, which contains previously saved search options. This simplifies scheduled scans with predefined search options.
• The Move operation now optionally logs the performed operations to a log file.
• The result lists do now work as a source for drag and drop operations.
• A new feature "Check all but Newest" has been added to the context menu of the duplicate file search results.
• A new feature in the context menu of the duplicate file search allows to replace duplicate files with hard links. This way all the duplicate files remain at their position, but only one file occupies disk space.

Program Information Category: Tools and Utilities Type: Shareware Version: 5.0.0 build 380 Size: 4.6MB Works on: Windows Product page: here