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Using DiskSavvy Windows Shell Extension

DiskSavvy provides a Windows shell extension allowing one to analyze disk space usage directly from the Windows Explorer application. In order to analyze one or more disks or directories, select the required disks or directories in the Windows Explorer application, press the right mouse button and select the 'DiskSavvy - Analyze Disk Space' menu item.

DiskSavvy Windows Shell Integration

In most cases, the Windows shell extension is a very useful feature, but sometimes, when the user have too many installed shell extensions, the Windows context menu may become too cluttered. In order to remove the DiskSavvy entry from the Windows context menu, open the options dialog, select the 'General' tab and disable the Windows shell extension.

DiskSavvy Options Shell Integration

DiskSavvy News

20-Jun-2026

DiskSavvy v18.2 redesigns the disk space analysis progress dialog, improves the performance of the disk space analysis operations and improves the fault tolerance of the disk space analysis operations. In addition, the new version improves the disk activity monitor tool pane, improves the system status monitor tool pane, improves the DiskSavvy GUI application and fixes a number of bugs.

14-May-2026

DiskSavvy v18.1 add support for new file types to the built-in file classification plug-ins, improves the disk space analysis pie charts and improves the file classification plug-ins designer. In addition, the new product version adds support for new types of file matching rules, improves the file matching rules dialog, improves the DiskSavvy command line utility and fixes a number of bugs.

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