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 ...

Stevey asked the Answer Line forum for advise on finding and removing duplicate files. A hard drive is like a family garage–junk expands to fill available space. An SSD behaves very much the same way, ...

The storage you are losing without even noticing.

Copies of files sometimes represent a big waste of disk space and can cause confusion if you want to make updates. Here are six commands to help you identify these files. In a recent post, we looked ...

Anyone who has a hard disk clogged with photos will welcomeVisual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder. This utility does anexcellent job of hunting down not just file duplicates, but photosthat are so ...

Glary Duplicate Cleaner is another simple yet powerful duplicate file cleaning software that can automatically find and delete duplicate files, leaving more valuable free disk space. Glary Duplicate ...

Unintended duplicate files can chew up a lot of disk space. Auslogics Duplicate File Finder will help you find dupes even when the file names don't match. By scanning and compiling the MD5 hash of of ...

As computer users, sometimes we tend to create duplicate files, and sometimes, we have no idea. For many of us, our Windows 11/10 system has many duplicate files, so the question is how to get rid of ...

Auslogics' Duplicate File Finder is easier to use than Digital Volcano's Duplicate Cleaner, but Duplicate Cleaner identifies more types of redundant files. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about ...

Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder helps you root out duplicate images so you can remove them and subsequently save space on your hard drive. Rather than relying on file names or format to ...