How to detect and delete the duplicate files on your computer?

This utility program is used to search and delete the duplicate files and folder on your hard disk, so that operating system can access data more quickly and easily. You can search any kind of duplicate files on your computer, for example music, text and picture. You can scan files with same contents, folder, drives and hard disk with powerful search engine. When the scanning process is completed, you will see a list of actual files, list of duplicate files with size, creating time, access and write time then create free disk space by deleting duplicates.

Duplicate File Detector has a very simple control panel to help the all level of users. You can scan almost any media CD/DVD, USB, external storage device, zip drive and network drive also. You can download this tool for any windows version. Download it and run the easy setup.click here to download Duplicate File Detector.

After installation launch Duplicate File Detector, the first screen will appear with the title "Duplicate File Detector with project name".

In left side panel click on "Explorer" tab and you will see a list of all attached drives and My Network Places also. Here you can select any file, folder and drives for scanning.

Select a folder (in this case My Documents) and then press the button "Search file duplicates now" in the bottom area of right side panel. Here you can select the options (Process subfolders and Skip zero-length file) under "Start Search" section. You can also filter files here with date, size and attributes.

Now a small dialog box will appear with title "Search for duplicate files in folders", click on "Search now" button to start scanning process. If you have a large folder size, this process can take several minute.

After search process is completed, the results are displayed in two lists. The top list shows all files in the specified folders and lower list shows files which have duplicates.

 

Right click on any duplicates files and you will find many options to manage this duplicate files, for example copy, move to other location or delete it.

 

I recommend you doing this after one month if you want to improve the performance of your computer.