6 Tools For Finding And Deleting Duplicate Files On Windows
There are so many ways available to free up storage space on your computer but not all are effective as we want. Duplicated files take up much space on our storage space and finding them has not been easy.
Windows do not make it easy to deal with duplicated files all by itself, but there are other external tools that can help identify and delete the duplicate files.
PowerShell scripts or batch files can be used to find and delete duplicated files, but not all people are tech-savvy, and also most people don’t prefer using the command prompt and prefer something that does not involve using it.
Without the use of third party software, Windows File Explorer can be used to find and delete duplicate files by searching for a specific file. This option is not helpful if you don’t know the files that are duplicates.
Alternatively, powerful File explorers like Total Commander and the popular CCleaner have options to find duplicate files and delete them but they mostly don’t effectively free the maximum space we need.
In this post, I will show you 6 alternate tools you can use to find and delete duplicate files to free up disk space.
CloneSPy
CloneSpy is a software that helps you free up disk space by detecting and deleting duplicate files from your system’s storage. With CloneSpy you can detect files which,
- are duplicates
- are duplicates and have the same file name
- have the same file name
CloneSpy gives you a complete mechanism for identifying duplicate and same file names which should be deleted.
Duplicate Cleaner Free
Duplicate cleaner is a software that helps you organize the contents of your hard drive and also identifying and deleting useless duplicate files.
Features :
- Find Duplicate files by content quickly
- cleans hard drive for faster performance
- Fast scanning and accurate duplicate comparison
- Deep scans music and locate duplicate music formats
Wise Duplicate Finder
This software helps you compare file name, file size and identify duplicate files for deletion. Features are as follows,
- Manage any type of duplicates
- Find empty files
- Delete duplicate copies manually or automatically.
- Backup and restore.
Dupscout
This is a duplicate file finder software allowing one to search and delete duplicate files. Below are the features of Dupscout,
- Search for duplicate files
- Save reports
- Replace duplicates with links
- Delete or move duplicate files to another location
Advanced Duplicate File Finder
Easy to use software to find and delete duplicate files eating up disk space from our computer. This software was designed purposely for processing, searching, identifying and deleting duplicate and void files scattered across your device storage.
The software has a user-friendly interface that everyone can cope with.
Fast Duplicate File Finder
This is another software that performs the same function of finding duplicate files. All software has similar features with just some slight difference. Below are the features of Fast Duplicate File Finder.
- Finds duplicate files in folders, hard drives, or entire disk space.
- Fast binary comparison algorithm
- Automatically locate duplicate files in Windows File Explorer.
There are many other features of all mentioned programs here but wrote the few important once.
Conclusion
Duplicate files cost excess storage loss to our hard drive. Sometimes people go on to delete important stuff to free up space which sometimes affects us, meanwhile duplicate files and junks are the cause of the storage loss.
In this article, we looked at some of the powerful software that identifies and delete duplicate files to free up disk space.
