As we use our personal computers, files that are both intentionally and unknowingly saved accumulate on our hard drives and they eventually cause our computers to slow down or even freeze for long periods of time.
However, what most of us do not realize is that a large number of the files that clog our hard drives are unnecessary duplicates. The duplications are normally caused by accidentally downloading the same files more than once, failure to delete files that were supposed to be moved from one folder (or partition) to another and keyboard/mouse errors that pop up as we go about our daily computing tasks.
Lucky for all of us, there is a free program called the Easy Duplicate Finder Portable 1.5 and it serves as a simple and effective solution for:
1.) People who have a lot of files on their hard drives.
2.) Those who want to remove unnecessary duplicate files from their PC.
This program scans your hard drive and identifies duplicate files, which allows you to delete unnecessary documents. When I used it on my laptop computer, it only took six minutes and 42 seconds to completely scan my 80 GB hard drive and only a few seconds to complete the deletion of my unwanted files. Now, that's fast and accurate, wouldn't you say?!
In my first scan, 495.35 MB of duplicates were found, which was hard to believe, because I bought my laptop only four months ago. However, after scrutinizing the scan results, I realized there were entire folders of unintentionally duplicated files, as well as, duplicates residing in my program folders and under the Temporary Internet Files section.
Using the software is very easy (please refer to the screenshot below for a reference). Simply download and install the Easy Duplicate Finder Portable 1.5, run the program by opening it, highlight the drives you want to be scanned and then click the Add button, followed by Start. To avoid deleting any of your vital files, choose Protect System Folders and Protect Other System Files (*.sys, *.ocx, *.drv, *.dll, etc.) prior to clicking the Start button.
After your scan results have been displayed, the duplicate files may be manually selected by right clicking them and choosing “Select all duplicates in this folder” and by clicking “Delete Selected."
That's all there is to it! Now, your computer will be free from all of those dreaded duplicate files. Yes!
