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Xylem

Xylem 0.2.0: a fast disk space analyzer for Windows 10/11. It shows what fills your drive, what each thing is, and whether it's safe to delete.

New in 0.2

  • Instant reopen and "what changed": your last scan opens in under a second; after a rescan, the folders that grew or shrank are listed and shown in a Change column.
  • Clean up with confidence: "Mark all" for safe-to-clear places (node_modules, Rust target, caches), a Leftovers view (old installers, archives and disk images in Downloads, Windows upgrade leftovers, possibly orphaned app data), custom rules, and Windows' own DISM / System Protection / Storage cleanups.
  • See it happen: colour by age (last modified), live updates while the app is open, size alerts.
  • Power tools (opt-in): export marked items as a PowerShell cleanup script (dry run by default), NTFS compression with compact.exe, guided WSL/Docker virtual-disk compaction.
  • Finding space: largest files with search, file types, duplicate finder, hardlink names, CSV export, Explorer right-click.
  • Safer: the elevated helper drops its admin rights before reading drive data; deletes keep the folder chain locked until the Recycle Bin move ends; a running app that uses a cache is pointed out before deleting it.
  • Lighter: scan data for 1.9M items 204 → 143 MB.

What it does

  • Scans a whole NTFS drive in about 1–2 seconds by reading its Master File Table, read-only, after the Windows admin prompt. Without admin it walks folders (no prompt).
  • Tree-table with a sunburst or treemap. Groups by location or by category (apps, media, dev stuff, AI & data, system, temp & caches…).
  • Explains known folders in plain English with a safety label, and locks Windows and system folders.
  • Deletes only to the Recycle Bin, after you confirm. It re-checks the item on disk first and warns about OneDrive folders, Git repositories and very large deletes. A deletion history is kept on your PC.
  • No network connections, no telemetry, no accounts.

Download

  • xylem-setup-0.2.0.exe: installer (recommended). Installs into Program Files, which protects the admin helper used by Fast scan. Includes an uninstaller (Settings → Apps).
  • xylem-0.2.0-portable.zip: no install. Unzip and run xylem.exe.

Signature: Not signed yet (SignPath application pending). Windows SmartScreen will warn; check the SHA-256 checksums below.

Code signing policy

Free code signing provided by SignPath.io, certificate by SignPath Foundation (pending approval).

Every file in this release was built by GitHub Actions from the tagged commit of JayD108/Xylem. Team roles and the privacy policy are on the project page.

Privacy: this program will not transfer any information to other networked systems unless specifically requested by the user or the person installing or operating it.

SHA-256 checksums

c573344d7572f0138da7589587ffabe1b9b9ff133c36a49569dc7b81f26c272e  xylem-cli.exe
85781d8de65bce41d34db47b7ea06d0a7485501a6222187d6439f08a2e530a0d  xylem-setup-0.2.0.exe
96cc507aeecb64b53937cc895e974ab86a154710c83d6e8d051abc7055e85e61  xylem.exe
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