Free duplicate search software for windows

Duplicate File Eraser is a small utility to search and delete duplicate files. Duplicate files are usually unnecessary and waste hard disk space. This tool will search a user specified directory/drive using MD5, CRC32 or SHA1 for true duplicate files. It will search duplicate files by file content not by filename or filesize. After a search session duplicate-files can be deleted or moved to recycle bin.

Duplicate Radar Free 2.68 is a free program that helps you to find duplicate files rapidly. It supports searching files with Unicode file name. The built-in powerful marker filters duplicate files by date, folder and file name pattern. It has ability to search files which size larger than 4GB due to true 64-bit addressing. It search duplicate file contents regardless of file name. It can preview common image format files.

It can export the result in CSV, Excel's XLS, HTML and XML format. With the help of the internal duplicate image & duplicate photo viewer, the image files can be view instantly in a thumbnail-sized window. It supports BMP, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, PCX, TGA, GIF, WMF, EMF, ICO, PCD and PSD formats.

Major Benefits:

• Identify and recover wasted disk space
• Reduce the time and media used for backups
• Minimize time used for unneeded virus scanning
• Reduce files searching time
• Increase free space on "limited" resources, like laptops and memory disks
• Remove duplicate files to eliminate synchronization problems

Major Features:

1. Easy to Use
   • Duplicate Radar has a user-friendly and easy-to-use user interface. Even a user without any experience of using Duplicate Radar before can search duplicate files within several minutes simply by clicking few buttons.
2. Searching duplicate files with high performance engine
   • Duplicate Radar is one of the fastest duplicate files searching program in the world. It uses so much low-level routines to speed up the whole process includes using assembly instructions in the major procedures.
     
3. Regardless of file name
   • Duplicate Radar searches duplicate files regardless of file name. It compares the file content of files to ensure that a exact identical files result would be shown.
4. Search files even file size larger than 4GB
   • The searching engine of Duplicate Radar supports 64-bit file size. It has no problem even your files are very very large as big as 10GB because Duplicate Radar read files for any size!
5. Fully Supports Unicode
   • Duplicate Radar does really read any file, even file name in multilanguage! It only requires that an Unicode-compatible Operating System was used like Windows 2000, XP, 2003 or Vista.
6. Exclude important folders and files
   • Any important folders and can be defined to be excluded from scanning altogether. Duplicate Radar can ignore from searching some file extensions that you defined.
7. Copy, move or delete the result files
   • After the search is completed, you can copy or move the duplicate files to your desired destination. Or you may delete them which have been marked by you before. Action of rename a file is also provided.
8. Built-in powerful marker
   • The powerful marker allows you to mark files by date, by file pattern or by folder. This enables you to mark files easily and save time without clicking each file separately.
9. Export result in CSV, XLS, HTML or XML format
   • The result in Duplicate Radar can be exported in CSV, Excel's XLS, HTML or XML format for further review purpose. You can save each format with forced Unicode exportation.
10. Preview image files without external application
    • With the help of the internal duplicate image & duplicate photo viewer, the image files can be view instantly in a thumbnail-sized window, so you don't need to start other image & photo processing program for the popular formats. The internal image viewer supports BMP, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, PCX, TGA, GIF, WMF, EMF, ICO, PCD and PSD formats.
11. Works with removable media devices
    • Duplicate Radar search for any disk drive even works with removable media devices like Floppy, DVD-Rom, USB, Flash disk, etc..
12. Shutdown PC after search completed
    • Duplicate Radar can save result automatically & shutdown your PC after search completed if you like to do so.
13. Schedule searching and search over network
    • The Business Edition of Duplicate Radar provides an easy-to-use schedule function. Now you can perform a daily, weekly or monthly searching. It may be very useful for the system admin. of I.T. department.
      
    • You can specify an email address for the delivery of the result files after schedule searching. You may not know that you have saved a same file to not less than one home computer. Let Duplicate Radar finds them for you automatically in minutes.

Requirements:

• Minimum:
• • Windows NT/2000/XP
  • Video display operating at 1024x768 hi-color (16 bit)
  • Pentium II or higher
  • 512 MB RAM for Personal & Professional Edition, 768 MB RAM for Business Edition
  • 5 MB free disk space
• Recommended:
• • Windows XP or above
  • Video display operating at 1024x768 true-color (24 bit)
  • Pentium III or above
  • 1024 MB RAM

The Duplicate Images Finder application was designed to search through your images collection and find duplicates not only by file name or size, but also by visual similarity. It done by implementation of some public domain algorithm to do its work.
System requirements:
- .NET Framework 2.0

Remove Duplicate Messages (Alternate) will search and remove messages which are duplicate of other messages in your mail folders.Capabilities and performance already surpass those of the original extension, except for whole-message-body comparison.
System requirements:
- Thunderbird: 1.5 ? 2.0.0.*

Enhancements:
- Bug fix release.