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Display folder sizes in Windows Explorer's Size column via a lightweight COM shell extension
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Display folder sizes in Win11 Explorer's Size column
by hereme888·Mar 4, 2026·2 points·3 comments
AI Analysis
●●SolidWizardryNiche Gem
COM hook + Detours + Everything IPC beats Windhawk's thread-local guard design.
Strengths
- •RAII recursive guard prevents exceptions leaking state during Explorer operations.
- •Thread-safe LRU cache (50MB bounded) with TTL outperforms ad-hoc map expiry.
- •Multi-output logging to DebugView and file with source location, not just Wh_Log.
Weaknesses
- •Requires Everything service running; fails silently if absent, adding hidden dependency.
- •Windows x64-only; COM shell extensions are system-level fragile and hard to debug.
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Target Audience
Windows power users, system administrators, developers managing large directory trees
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Windhawk (property-sheet mods) · Everything (file indexing)
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