Duplicate Finder 2009 - Basic Edition

Have you ever wondered if you have two or more identical files on your computer? Or wondered if you could remove a bunch of extra files that are cluttering up your hard drive? Duplicate File Finder can do all of these for you.

Features: The tool is nicely designed to perform find and delete duplicate files on your local drive or network computer. The application can search files by name as well as byte by byte. In the byte by byte search/comparison it finds exact duplicates as the comparison is at 1’s and 0’s level. Interface helps user to find the duplicates without much effort. It is not just the content but also the structure that determines if two files are same.

You need to define you scan criteria to find exact duplicate files. Add search location, you can also include sub-folders for search. Exclusion list allows you to set exclude hidden files or folders protect system files. You have a very nice filter option, it allows you to set file mask. You can find duplicates of any type: documents, file archive, images files, music files, video files, program files, program source etc. You can filter with date and file size etc. Duplicate file search can be performed Byte by Byte, CRC32, Music duplicate, same file and pattern duplicates. After search, duplicate files are displays in groups to make it easier for you to decide if they need to be kept or deleted. Application allows you to export search result in HTML, XML, and delimited text file format. Deleting duplicate files frees lots of disk space on your hard drives; it also saves time on the drive clean up process.

Overall: This is good utility for hard drive clean up from duplicate files and thus freeing up space on the drive.

Duplicate Finder 2009, the most advance reliable and efficient disc clean up utility to find and remove duplicate files on your local computer or computer network (vista supported). Your hard disc is normally occupied by many unnecessary and duplicate files, this tool not only finds these files but it also removes them, thereby reclaiming your disc space. The efficiency of this tool is because of its amazing features; this tool has ability to work with multiple disks and drives at the same time. It compares files byte to byte thus filtering them by names, size, date and attributes. And a built in feature to exclude subfolders, an ability to save search criteria, tools provided for safe deletion of duplicate files to recycle bin. It provides full support to FAT, FAT-32, and NTFS format partitions. This tool with unmatched simplicity, power and speed has been made as a solution for your business or personal needs in a network. Duplicate Finder 2009 saves not only space on your hard drives; it also saves time on the drive clean up process.
Remove Duplicate Files and Organize Your File Collection!
Features
* Powerful search engines (byte by byte, crc32, mp3 duplicates, pattern duplicates)
* Find files with same contents, same name, same mp3 tags and pattern match.
* Find duplicate pictures, video, songs(mp3, wma, ogg, itunes, ipods)
* Preview pictures, songs, videos in built in Preview Window.
* Search within Zip Archives.
* Supports networks and removable media devices like (external hardisk, flash drives, etc.)
* Can find duplicates from a selected set of folders (i.e., not from whole drive).
* Allows important folders you wish to be excluded from scanning altogether.
* Can use wild cards and protects the windows and system folders.
* Very user friendly vista interface design with changeable skins.
* Save job session and results for later review.
* Results can be exported in HTML, XML and CSV formats.