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First post, by leileilol

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Around 1996-97 I once used this Windows 95 disk space analysis program that had large colorful pie charts with slight depth, a drive bar at the top (like winfile) and possibly a directory tree at the left. The most identifying part of it has been its window caption because it painted a gradient with a large font on the title bar which was striking. The caption could imply use of Borland Delphi (it had that functionality) but there's also similar functionality available for Visual Basic.

It may have either been shareware or commercial software.

This was BEFORE Windows 98 and before I used Windows 98 where there's officially normalized gradient captions.

The closest to the description I know of is Norton File Manager from Norton Navigator, but the caption there is cribbing Microsoft Word 95's with only blue, and I don't think it was a Norton product.

(by the way don't post any links. I'm looking for names and screenshots (under Win95 - NOT 98+) at most. and no useless smug 'just look here <insert shovelware that 99% doesnt have it> maybe u find it' responses either. )

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Reply 1 of 4, by Rwolf

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Maybe TreeSize by Jam Software? They seemed to offer Delphi stuff on their original website.
They have a blog about their older programs with some screen of the programs, and they supported Win95.

Reply 2 of 4, by leileilol

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Looking at their 25th anniversary blog post, it doesn't seem to ring a bell. the caption's flat and the colors are too primary and I think the pie had more perspective (like saw more of the side) and more cyans.

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Reply 3 of 4, by BitWrangler

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You sure it wasn't Norton's fancier version of scandisk? That had something like that in it for some version around that era.

Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.

Reply 4 of 4, by Kerr Avon

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I second Treesize, it does sound like that. Perhaps modern versions look sufficiently different to what you remember due to the design being changed by the developers in the meantime.