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If you are using a PC for a long time, files with the same contents are saved around HDD and SSD, and sometimes wastefully consuming the capacity of the drive. However, it is difficult to confirm and ...

If you want to increase the amount of free space on your computer, find unnecessary duplicate files with conditions (name, size, creation date, attributes, etc.), and further conditions (update time, ...

You download too much crap. Sometimes you download the same crap multiple times. Even if you need to keep those files, you don’t need two of them. To get rid of the ...

Many of us have gone through the ritual of finding and thinking about which files to keep and which to get rid of when it comes to making space in our computers for something else. One of the major ...

The duplicate file is a headache when it comes to storage issues on our computer. Further lack of space makes your PC slower, and it further increases the difficulty when it comes to finding the ...

Windows 8's built-in search function is pretty good at finding individual files and all the other files that share the same name. However, it does not do a good job of clearly flagging identical files ...

Are there any utlities out there that will search for duplicate files? Something that works along the lines of PC's Ace Utilities Duplicate File Finder (i.e. compares files based on MD5 or CRC hash)?