Scanner (software)
Scanner is a disk space analyzing and management tool for Microsoft Windows operating systems. It displays the disk space usage of any drive or directory in the form of a multilevel pie chart which can be navigated up and down through the directory tree. When the mouse cursor is placed above a pie the program displays which directory the pie represents, how many files it contains and the overall disk space occupied by it. A context menu allows users to open the directory inside the Windows Explorer, hide and un-hide it from the diagram as well as deleting the pie from the disk either via the Recycle Bin or permanently.
| Developer(s) | Steffen Gerlach |
|---|---|
| Initial release | March 14, 1999 |
| Stable release | 2.13
/ July 12, 2012 |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Platform | IA-32 |
| Type | Disk space analyzer |
| License | Freeware |
| Website | steffengerlach |
Initially released in 1999, it is an early example of the sunburst method of visualising disk usage and inspired the KDE package Filelight.[1]
References
- "Source of current main.cpp of Filelight". GitLab. Archived from the original on 22 August 2016.
about.addCredit(i18n("Steffen Gerlach"), i18n("Inspiration"), QString(), QStringLiteral("http://www.steffengerlach.de/"))
Excerpt from source code of Filelight acknowledging inspiration of Scanner.