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This program will help you easily and quickly remove duplicate files from hard drive your computer. With this tool you can clean your computer from duplicate files, free disk space and improve your PC's performance. Duplicate Remover Free- Very simple utility with an intuitive interface. Open installation file, select the folder where you want to install the program, and after a couple of minutes, you will be able to work with it. After starting the program, specify the folder or drive where you want to search for duplicates and click the "Start" button. On the next tab you will see the results of searching for duplicate files. All you have to do is mark those that you don’t need and give the program the command to delete them. As you can see, everything is very simple.

Removing copies of files that are clogging your hard drive

Why delete identical files? This demon paid program will be simply irreplaceable if the user works intensively on a computer or laptop. For example, you should use it regularly if you create and edit a large number of various documents. When changing files, users often save the original document just in case, and new version stored either in a different folder or under a different name. Over time, the need for the original version of the file disappears, but, as a rule, original file forget to delete. As a result, numerous copies of files are stored on the computer's hard drive, which clog up HDD, cause confusion and take up a lot of free disk space. This program, which searches for clones, will very quickly find all duplicate files and delete them.

Automatic and safe removal of duplicates

Very often, users prefer to search for duplicate files manually, fearing that the program that searches and removes duplicates will automatically delete some important duplicate files. These fears are in vain, since this utility cannot delete anything without the user's knowledge. The program deletes only those duplicate files that the user himself has marked for deletion. When working with this utility that searches for duplicate files, it is important to remember that the resulting report shows all versions of the files, including the original. Therefore, when marking files for deletion in the resulting list, you must leave at least one of them.

Using minimal PC resources

Duplicate Remover Free – best software to find and remove duplicates also because it is free. The version of the program, which you can download from the link below, does not require registration and is absolutely free. Intuitively clear interface This utility allows even novice PC users to work with it. The program is easy to install, takes up little space on your hard drive and uses minimal system resources. This tool Suitable for use on any version of the Windows operating system, including Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10.

Sometimes in everyday life computer activities The task arises of finding duplicate files. There can be many reasons for this: lack of space on the hard drive, attempts to reduce entropy in your files, deal with those dumped in different time photographs from the camera and many other necessary cases.

You can find a large number of programs on the Internet that allow you to search for duplicate files. But why look for any programs if a smart tool for such work is usually always at hand. And this tool is called Total Commander (TC).

In this article I will show all the methods based on Total Commander versions 8.5 , in this version, the search for duplicate files has become very rich in functionality.

!!!A small important digression. What do you mean by duplicate file? Two files are IDENTICAL only if they are exactly the same bit by bit. Those. Any information in a computer is represented by a sequence of zeros and ones. So, files match only when they completely match the sequence of zeros and ones that make up these files. All talk about how you can compare two files on any other basis is deeply erroneous.

TC has two, essentially different, methods for finding duplicate files:

  • Synchronize directories;
  • Search for duplicates;

Their features and applications are best illustrated with examples.

1.Directory synchronization.

This method is used when the two folders you are comparing have an identical structure. This usually happens in many cases, here are a few of them:

  • Have you regularly archived your work folder? After some time, you need to find out which files have been added or changed since the archive was created. You unpack the entire archive into separate folder. The folder structure in it practically coincides with the working one. You compare two folders “original” and “restored from archive” and easily get a list of all changed, added or deleted files. A couple of simple manipulations - and you will remove from the recovered folder all the duplicate files that are in the working one.
  • You are working in a folder on network drive and regularly make a copy to your local disk. In time your work folder has become quite large and the time spent on full copy, has become very large. In order not to copy the entire folder each time, you can first compare it with the backup one and copy only those files that have been changed or added, and also delete them in backup folder files that were deleted from the main one.

Once you get the hang of it and feel the full power of this method, you yourself will be able to come up with thousands of situations where the directory synchronization method will be of great help to you in your work.

So, how does everything happen in practice? Let's get started.

Let's assume we have a main folder "Working", which contains the files with which you are working. And there is a folder "Archive", in which lies old copy folders "Working". Our task is to find duplicate files in both folders and remove them from the folder "Archive".

Open TC. In the right and left panels, open the folders being compared:

Press menu “Commands” - “Synchronize directories...”


The directory comparison window opens

Next we need to set the comparison parameters. Put a tick in the parameters “with subdirectories”, “by content”, “ignore date”

  • "with subdirectories"— files in all subdirectories of the specified folders will be compared;
  • "by content"- Here key option, which forces TC to compare files BIT by BIT!!! Otherwise, files will be compared by name, size, date;
  • "ignore date"- this option forces TC to show differing files without trying automatic detection directions for future copying;

!!! Files will only be compared with same names!!! If the files are identical, but they have different name, then they will not be compared!

Press the button "Compare". Depending on the size of the files, the comparison can take a very long time, do not be alarmed. Eventually the comparison will end and the result will be displayed in the bottom status line (section 1 in the figure):


If the buttons in the “Show” section (section 2 in the figure) are pressed, then you will see the comparison result for each file.

— this button enables the display of files that are in the left panel, but not in the right;

— this button enables the display of identical files;

— this button enables the display of differing files;

— this button enables the display of files that are in the right panel, but not in the left;

If you initially have all display buttons turned off, then the result of the comparison can only be assessed by the status bar (section 1 in the figure above), in in this case we see that 11 files were compared, of which 8 files are the same, 2 files are different, and there is also a file in the left panel that is not in the right panel.

To complete our task, it is necessary to leave the display of only identical (identical) files, so we turn off all other display buttons


Now we only have identical files left, and we can safely delete them in the folder "Archive". To do this, select all files. The easiest way to do this is by pressing the universal combination CTRL+A. Or first select the first line with the mouse, then press the key on the keyboard SHIFT and without releasing it, select the last line with the mouse. As a result, you should get something like this:

The final step is to click right key mouse on any line and select the item in the menu that opens "Delete on the left"

TC kindly asks us about our desire,

and if we press "YES" then it deletes all marked files in the folder "Archive".

After this, the two folders are automatically compared again. If you do not need a repeated comparison, the process can be interrupted by clicking on the button "Abort" or press a key ESC on keyboard. If the repeated comparison was not interrupted, and we turned on all the display buttons, then we will see a window like this

All. The task has been completed. All identical files were found and deleted in the folder "Archive".

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2.Search for duplicates.

Fundamental difference this method from the directory synchronization method is that TC ignores the names of the files being compared. In fact, it compares each file with each, and shows us identical files no matter what they are called ! This search is very convenient when you do not know either the folder structure or the names of the files being compared. In any case, after searching for duplicates, you will receive an exact list of identical files.

I will show you the search for duplicates on one practical problem, searching for duplicates personal photos. Quite often you download photos from your digital gadgets to your computer. Often the situation gets confused, something is reset many times, something is skipped. How to quickly delete files that have been dropped multiple times? Very simple!

Let's get started.

Let's say you always dump all your photos into a folder "PHOTO" on drive D. After all the resets, the folder looks something like this:

As you can see, some files are located in folders named by the date of shooting, some are dropped to the root of the folder "_New" And "_New1"

To start searching for duplicates, open the folder in which we will search in any TC panel. In our case this is the folder "PHOTO"

Next, press the key combination on the keyboard ALT+F7 or select from the menu “Commands” - “Search files”

A window opens standard search TC. String "Search files:" leave it empty, then all files will be compared.

Then go to the bookmark "Additionally" and check the boxes “Search for duplicates:”, “by size”, “by content” and press "To start searching".


The search can take a VERY long time, do not be afraid of this, as it happens great amount comparisons of large volumes of files. At the same time, the progress percentage is shown in the status bar

When the search ends, a search results window will open, in which we press the button "Files to panel"


In the search window and in the panel window, identical files are collected in sections separated by dotted lines

Each section displays the file name and full path to the file. The names of IDENTICAL files can be completely different!
In this case, it is clear that the same photograph was recorded THREE times, twice under the same name( IMG_4187.JPG) and the third time this photograph was recorded under a completely different name ( IMG_4187_13.JPG).

Next, it remains to select unnecessary identical files and delete them. This can be done manually by selecting each file by pressing a key Ins. But it takes a long time and is not effective. There are better and faster ways.

So our task is to remove duplicate files in folders "_New" And "_New1".
To do this, click on additional keyboard, on right big key [+] . Typically, using this key in TC, files are selected by mask. The same operation can be done through the menu “Selection” - “Select group”

Good day.

Statistics are an inexorable thing - for many users hard drives Sometimes there are dozens of copies of the same file (for example, pictures, or music track). Each of these copies, of course, takes up space on the hard drive. And if your disk is already “filled” to capacity, then there can be quite a lot of such copies!

Cleaning duplicate files manually is not a rewarding thing, which is why I want to collect in this article programs for finding and removing duplicate files (even those that differ in both file format and size from each other - and this is quite difficult task!). So…

List of programs for finding duplicates

1. Universal (for any files)

Carry out a search identical files by their size ( checksums).

Under universal programs, I understand, those that are suitable for searching and deleting duplicates of any type of file: music, movies, pictures, etc. (below in the article, “its own” more accurate utilities will be given for each type). Most of them work according to the same type: they simply compare file sizes (and their checksum), if among all the files there are identical ones in this characteristic - they show you!

Those. thanks to them, you can quickly find complete copies (i.e. one to one) of files on the disk. By the way, I’ll also note that these utilities work faster than those that are specialized for specific type files (for example, searching for images).

DupKiller

I put this program in first place for a number of reasons:

  • supports just a huge number of different different formats, which she can search;
  • high speed;
  • free and with Russian language support;
  • very flexible settings for searching for duplicates (search by name, size, type, date, content (limited)).

Duplicate Finder

This utility, in addition to searching for copies, also sorts them as you please (which is very convenient when there are an incredible number of copies!). Also add to the search capabilities byte-by-byte comparison, checksum verification, deletion of files with zero size (and empty folders Same). In general, this program does a pretty good job of finding duplicates (both quickly and efficiently!).

Those users who are new to English will feel a little uncomfortable: Russian is not in the program (maybe it will be added later).

Glary Utilities

In general, this is not one utility, but a whole collection: it will help you delete “junk” files, set optimal settings in Windows, defragment and clean up the hard drive, etc. Including this collection there is a utility for searching for duplicates. It works relatively well, which is why I will recommend this collection (as one of the most convenient and universal - as they say, for all occasions!) once again on the pages of the site.

2. Programs for finding duplicate music

These utilities will be useful to all music lovers who have a decent collection of music accumulated on their disk. I'm drawing pretty typical situation: download various music collections (100 best songs October, November, etc.), some of the compositions are repeated in them. It is not surprising that, having accumulated 100 GB of music (for example), 10-20 GB can be copies. Moreover, if the size of these files in different collections were the same, then they could be deleted by the first category of programs (see above in the article), but since this is not the case, then these duplicates cannot be found by anyone except your “hearing” And special utilities (which are presented below).

Music Duplicate Remover

The result of the utility.

This program differs from others, first of all, in its quick search. It searches for duplicate tracks by their ID3 tags and sound. Those. she will listen to the composition for you, remember it, and then compare it with others (thus doing a huge amount of work!).

The screenshot above shows the result of her work. She will present her found copies to you in the form of a small tablet, in which a percentage similarity figure will be assigned to each track. In general, quite convenient!

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Found duplicate MP3 files...

This utility is similar to the one above, but it has one undoubted advantage: the presence of a convenient wizard who will guide you step by step! Those. a person who launches this program for the first time will easily figure out where to click and what to do.

For example, in my 5000 tracks in a couple of hours, I managed to find and delete several hundred copies. An example of how the utility works is shown in the screenshot above.

3. To search for copies of pictures, images

If you analyze the popularity of certain files, then the pictures will probably not lag behind the music (and for some users they will surpass them!). It’s hard to imagine working on a PC (and other devices) without pictures! But searching for images with the same image on them is a rather difficult (and long) task. And, I must admit, there are relatively few programs of this kind...

ImageDupeless

A relatively small utility with fairly good performance in finding and eliminating duplicate images. The program scans all the images in the folder and then compares them with each other. As a result, you will see a list of pictures that are similar to each other and you will be able to make a conclusion about which one to keep and which one to delete. It is very useful, sometimes, to thin out your photo archives.

ImageDupeless example

By the way, here small example personal test:

  • experimental files: 8997 files in 95 directories, 785MB (archive of pictures on a flash drive (USB 2.0) - gif and jpg formats)
  • gallery occupied: 71.4MB
  • creation time: 26 min. 54 sec.
  • time for comparison and output of results: 6 min. 31 sec.
  • result: 961 similar image in 219 groups.

Image Comparer

I have already mentioned this program on the pages of the site. Represents the same small program, but with pretty good image scanning algorithms. Eat step by step wizard, launched when you first open the utility, which will guide you through all the “thorns” of first setting up the program to search for duplicates.

By the way, just below is a screenshot of the utility’s operation: in the reports you can even view small parts, where the pictures are slightly different. In general, it’s convenient!

4. To search for duplicates of films and videos

Well, the last popular file type that I would like to dwell on is video (films, videos, etc.). If once before, having a 30-50 GB disk, I knew in which folder where and what movie takes up how much (and they were all against each other), then, for example, now (when disks have become 2000-3000 GB or more) - they are often found the same videos and films, but in different quality (which can take up quite a lot of space on your hard drive).

Most users (yes, in general, me too 🙂) don’t need this state of affairs: it just takes up space on the hard drive. Thanks to a couple of utilities below, you can clear your disk of identical videos...

On a computer with hard drive at one point it may turn out that its capacity is not enough. This, at least, happens to most users who actively use PCs. In case of solid state drive(SSD) the situation is identical with the only difference being that the free space on such a device is usually much less.

One way to increase free space is to delete duplicate files that inevitably appear after a while. Good duplicate file finder software should be able to recognize duplicates by name, size and/or content. And after finding duplicates, the program should offer the user the ability to choose which files and folders to delete and which to leave.

With all this in mind, excellent choice Duplicate Cleaner Free will be used to detect and remove duplicates. The program offers an abundance of features combined with relatively high speed operation and an intuitive interface.

Before scanning begins, you can tell the program whether to take into account similarities in file names, whether files with a small or zero size should be excluded from scanning, and system files and folders. In addition, you can limit scanning to only files of a certain type and any or fixed size; and files created or modified between certain dates. And the “Audio Mode” section will be useful when searching for duplicate audio files. You can search by file name, artist, etc.

If your hard drive is so full that you're not even sure if you can install this program (weighs about 5 MB), you can try the old one, but still working version Easy Duplicate File Finder. The application is portable, which means you can download it directly to a flash drive and use it without installing it on your hard drive.

This program is not as feature rich as Duplicate Cleaner Free or Current version Easy Duplicate File Finder (which, by the way, is a smart alternative to Duplicate Cleaner), but it is very compact, portable and... works.

Finding duplicate images can be difficult and requires the use of specialized software. If you want to declutter your albums, perhaps you should try Awesome Duplicate Photo Finder. This program is absolutely free - you can use it freely both at home and in the office.

Awesome Duplicate Photo Finder allows you to find all your duplicate photos with just a few clicks. According to the authors, the program can compare photo sizes or even photos that have been color corrected. Supported following formats files: JPG, BMP, GIF and PNG.

Each of the programs mentioned above can be useful. Do a scan and you will be surprised how many duplicate files you have accumulated on your computer.

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Finding duplicate files on a computer or laptop Windows XP, 7, 8, 10, looking for identical files using programs

Deleting duplicate files (copies of the same file) or folders can free up disk space and reduce unnecessary trash in the system, which has a positive effect on the speed of the system. Sometimes duplicates are created by the user himself (for example, the same photos are copied to different folders, located inside the same physical disk), in some cases they remain after using various software. The function of searching for unnecessary copies is performed by many applications, most of which are distributed under the free status. Let us describe the operation of several such applications.

Removing duplicates using Total Commander

We use Dupeguru

This software is designed solely to scan the system for copies and does not perform other functions.

Setting an alarm on your computer or laptop

AllDup to detect duplicates

The design of the program is made in a beautiful and easy-to-use style. Immediately after launch, a window appears with quick guide for finding duplicates. You can search anywhere physical disk entirely by checking the required local drives.

Or add individual folders by clicking on the arrow next to the “Source Folders” button and selecting “Add Folders” from the drop-down list.

Let's try to find duplicates in the Games folder in local disk"WITH:\"

Activate the “Search Method” tab and set up the criteria. By default, the option to search for duplicates only by similar names is active; if necessary, check the box required settings. It is advisable to enable search by extension, otherwise the software may show files with similar names, even if they are not copies of each other.

Afterwards, click the start search button.

After completion, a new window with the results will open, in which we mark the necessary files, right-click on the file that is supposed to be cleared of duplicates (open context menu) and select “Delete all other files from this group permanently” to delete the copies. In this case, the original itself will remain untouched, only duplicates will be deleted.

How to use DuplicateCleaner Free

A very thoughtful application for finding and removing duplicates on your computer. This allows you to search for all files in normal mode, search for copies of images or music, or identical folders.

Let's launch the application. First of all, we set up the search criteria, for this in the section “ Additional options"check the "With the same name" setting and go to the "Scan path" tab

Select a folder, click the button to add the selected folder to the included paths and click the “Scan” button.

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We wait until the end of the scan, which will display the statistics of detected duplicates in a separate window. We close the window.

In the “Duplicate Files” tab, the list displays identical files, mark the unnecessary ones and click the “View” menu, select the “Delete files” item

In the window that opens, click “Delete file(s)”. In this case, it is advisable to enable deletion in the Recycle Bin so that you can restore the necessary files.

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Finding and deleting identical files

Greetings, dear reader! Today I will show you a program that searches for identical files on the computer. The program not only finds copies of files, but also, at the user’s request, immediately deletes them. Very convenient in this regard. And there may be so many copies of files that you won’t even suspect it. They just may be located in different folders and even on different drives. You may use some of them all the time, but you may have forgotten about their copies.

For example, they downloaded a picture from the Internet, used it for their own purposes and forgot about it. After some time, you needed this picture, but you were too lazy to look for it on the computer. It's easier to find it on the Internet. Download again and get a duplicate file that already exists on your computer.

The same can happen with music files. You downloaded it into different folders and think that you have it in a single copy. Many PC users make one mistake. When you grab a file with the left mouse button and drag it to another folder located on another disk, it is not moved, but copied. This means that the file remains in the same place, but in new folder there was a copy of it on another disk.

It turns out that one file is superfluous and only takes up free space in the computer’s memory.

Search for identical files

This program has flexible settings with which we can speed up the search. Let's say we are looking only on one or two disks. We tick them and click the “Scan” button. But the program will find all files that have copies. But we don’t need this, because, for example, we only want to find images.

Search by file type

In this case, go to the “Files and Folders” tab. Check the file format boxes. Images come in different formats, but the program offers us only four: jpg, jpeg, gif, bmp. These are the most popular image formats that almost every user has. The rest that are not in the list must be entered manually. Click the “Add” button. In the window that opens, enter required format Pictures. For example from Photoshop-(*.PSD)

OK! We scan and get a bunch of copies to delete. Stop! But they can be systemic. So let's move on.

We scan only the necessary folders

Let's select individual folders to scan. The program will only check them. At the bottom of the program there is a “Searched folders” setting. We check the “Only specified folders” item; with such parameters, the disk in the “Disks” tab can not be selected. Yes, and don't forget to check the box here "Include these folders even if the corresponding drive is not selected"

We scan and get the result. Upon completion of the scan, DupKiller will switch to the “List” tab, where all found duplicate files will be shown.

The files, in our case, are pictures, sorted into groups. A group consists of two or more files. They are all the same, as they are copies of each other.

Which files should I delete?

Click on any of the files in the group, and you will see a thumbnail image in the preview window. Now just scroll the mouse wheel to move through the list and compare copies with each other.

All information about the file is visible on the program screen. And even if the image is not displayed in the preview window, we can compare files by name, size and type. The first column, called "Path", shows the location of the file.

Deleting identical files

We look at this data and select one file in each group. Now the marked files can be deleted by clicking on the “Delete” or “Delete selected files” button. You can also use the “Delete” key on the keyboard to delete.

If there are too many files to delete, then it is better to use automatic deletion files. In this case, you choose from which folder to delete identical files. how it works? Select one file in the group with the right mouse button and click on the “Auto Select” button

In the window that appears in the top block, the paths to folders in which there are similarities between the files will be displayed. The same folders are listed in the lower block, but are not checked. We need to select one of these folders in which the files should be deleted. Click “Ok”

There's another problem here. Each time you delete one of the copies, a confirmation window appears. You're tired of confirming. Disable this notification by going to the “Delete” settings and uncheck the “Ask for confirmation before deleting” option.

OK it's all over Now. I superficially showed you the principle of operation of the DupKiller program.

There is a desire to delve into additional settings"Search Settings" and "Other Settings"

And in my opinion, she does her job well.

Write in the comments how you like this program and how do you clean up disk space of unnecessary copies?

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Finding and removing duplicate files on your computer

Now you can find hard disks simply amazing volumes, measured in terabytes. Users can now store more and more data on their computer. But strangely enough, no matter what the size of the hard drive, at some point an unpleasant “emergency” occurs - there may be no space left on the disk at all.

Is it really necessary in such a situation to sacrifice some of the data stored on the disk, or buy another hard drive? As it turns out, there is a more economical and practical way out similar situation. The solution to the problem is to delete duplicate files, which accumulate on the system over time and take up unnecessary space.

It happens all the time that the same file can have several unnecessary copies. Therefore, you can and should get rid of unnecessary copies, thereby freeing up space on your hard drive. Naturally, searching for such elements manually is ineffective and you may not even find anything. So in today's article, we will look at a quick and easy way to clear your system of unnecessary duplicates.

Selecting a program to remove duplicates

Exists huge selection paid and free utilities who are capable of coping with such a task. Having made a detailed analysis of each, it was decided that it could do a good job here CCleaner program. This utility is quite popular and has won such favor among users due to its freeness and ease of operation, but most importantly, it provides desired result when it comes to cleaning the system. The program is capable of cleaning the system from many types of software “junk”, so it is useful for many other similar tasks. Recently, it has added a function to search for duplicate files. Now we will take a closer look at how it works.

First, you need to download and install the program version no lower than version 4. You can do this using the link: http://ccleaner.org.ua/download/

Once the program has been installed, open it. On the left side of the window, select “Service” and click on the file search tab. Here we will see the main parameters for searching for similar files.

Here you can select which match criteria will be used to search for files. And also, in the skip section you can specify exceptions, files that will not be affected. This is useful and will help you avoid deleting anything important. After this, we indicate those partitions on the hard drive in which the search for identical files will take place.

If desired, you can narrow your search area to specific folder on disk. To do this, click on the “Add” button and select it from the Explorer window.

Also, in this window you can specify file extensions that will be searched. This setting can be useful if you need to delete only identical music or movie files.

There is a section with the “Exceptions” parameters. Here you can manually specify files that the program cannot touch. When you have completed setting up the search for identical files, click on the “Find” button.

After the search is completed, the program will display a report with the results in the window.

The results are a list of found files, consisting of the name, file location, size, and creation time.

Now simply mark all unnecessary files with checkboxes and click on the delete button. Try not to delete everything at once, because among the duplicate files there may be quite important ones system elements. If the file is unfamiliar and you have no idea about its purpose, then just in case, it is better not to touch it. Sometimes identical files can be located in completely different folders, and the purpose of each will be related to different applications. In this case, you should not delete such files either. Always try to make sure that deleting a file will not break the system.

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How to remove duplicate files on your computer?

Hello, dear friends! In today's short article we will talk about how to remove duplicate files on a computer or laptop. But first, what is a duplicate file?

A duplicate file is a copy of a file that is located on the computer in another directory: folder, disk and has the same name, extension and “weight” as its original. Even if you did not specifically duplicate files in case of loss, system failures or for another purpose - they are still on almost every computer.

On operating systems that have been in use for more than a year, problems will inevitably appear. unnecessary files-duplicates. These can be service libraries, videos, music, pictures, etc.

Where do duplicates come from, you ask?

Everything is very simple, for example, you downloaded two albums of songs from the same artist from the Internet, often the songs in the collections are repeated, i.e. the same. The same thing usually happens with photos - in different folders identical photos.

Over time, duplicate files become more numerous, and they take up space on your computer’s hard drive or flash drive. By removing useless and duplicate files, you can increase (and sometimes significantly) free place on the hard drives of your computer or laptop.

Sometimes it is not the user who is to blame for the occurrence of many duplicates, but third party programs installed on a computer. For example, some applications may install the same DLLs or OCX files to different folders.

How to remove duplicate files?

To get rid of duplicate garbage on your computer and solve the issue of how to remove duplicate files automatically, you can use special programs.

There are many programs to deal with this problem. Most applications this kind work on the same principle. First, the user starts the scanning process, the program searches for files with the same names and same size and offers to delete them.

Duplicate Finder

Although Duplicate program Finder has absolutely small size, she has good functionality. This application can quickly solve the problem of how to remove duplicate files by matching files bit by bit, which allows you to most accurately identify duplicates.

After the scanning process is completed, the program offers to either delete unnecessary copies or move them to a separate folder.

Duplicate Finder can also use the CRC32 algorithm to search for duplicates. The application is able to find files with zero size and supports working with removable drives (including USB devices).

The program has a built-in image viewer where you can view duplicate photos before deleting them.

However, Duplicate Finder is a paid program. Her free version allows you to delete or move up to 50 files to a separate folder, the size of each of which cannot exceed 2 megabytes.

From free programs that can solve the problem of how to remove duplicate files, the most popular are CloneSpy and DupKiller. They, like other applications of this kind, can compare files with each other by names, creation dates or checksums. DupKiller is used to find duplicates special algorithms, significantly speeding up the scanning process.

Auslogics Duplicate File Finder

Auslogics program Duplicate File Finder is also free and does a good job of solving the question of how to remove duplicate files, i.e. she is able to find extra copies music files, movies, images, etc. The program searches for duplicates by comparing the MD5 hash.

The application interface is intuitive - after launching the program, the user is asked to select the type of files to scan (archives, programs, photos, etc.), and after scanning, all that remains is to delete unnecessary copies. The only disadvantage of the program is that from time to time it shows intrusive advertising.

And let's look at this program in more detail.

Auslogics Duplicate File Finder works in the operating room Windows system, quickly downloads and configures. If necessary, it can be removed at any time.

You can download Auslogics Duplicate File Finder for free from the official website using this link: http://www.auslogics.com/ru/software/free/