Duplicate Files Finder

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Duplicate files can begin appearing in your system for a number of reasons, and can have a number of detrimental results in addition to wasting your drive space. Various applications may install the same files in numerous different locations on your system, or you may copy or download the same files into different folders on your system without knowing it. Sometimes the only result of this is wasted hard drive space, but many times, if there are a number of different copies of the same driver or other vital system file, your system can become confused as to which file to use and may even crash or lock up sporadically causing loss of data or other disastrous results.

Glary Utilities 'Duplicate Files Finder' tool can easily find and remove duplicates of the same file before they cause system instability.Removal of duplicate files from your system will organize your data and will increase your system speed as it has now to scan lesser files.

How to use

·	Click 'Scan for duplicate files' to start Scanning wizard.

·	Select the drives/folders on your hard disk you want to scan, by checking the appropriate drives.then click 'Next' to proceed further.

·	Select duplicate files match criteria and select scan all files or only scan for those file types that are in the type list. then click 'Next' to proceed further.

·	If you would like to exclude a folder that is not currently displayed within the Excluded Folders list, you may do so in the following manner.

Click 'Add Folder' button.

You'll be presented with a box that will allow you to browse your drives for the specific folder location you would like to add. Select this folder. You can also use wildcards (* and ? ) too.

Click 'Ok'

·	Click 'Next' button and wait for the process to complete, This might take some time.

All the duplicate file groups will be listed. From each group, keep the original copy, and check mark the duplicate copy, by viewing the properties/viewing the file by opening with its associated program. Click 'Delete checked files' to remove all the check marked files. By default, all deleted files are sent to the recycle bin.