How to Find and Remove Duplicate Files on Windows 10 For Free

[Music] once you guys got another video here for you on how to find and remove duplicate files on windows 10 or any other version of windows for free now if you've got a large hard drive most likely you've got a ton of files that are duplicates and finally these can be very difficult but ozlogix have got a duplicate file finder which makes it easier to find all these files now it does work with windows 7 8.1 and windows 10 so go over to the website and you can download this software for free now one of my biggest complaints with these particular types of companies is that they use open candy software to try to get it installed on your system so if we say do not send uh information back we can untick this but what i would suggest you do is go to custom install this way when you accept their terms conditions you will get notified of any sort of other software they're trying to offload on to you without your consent you can see here you accept these terms conditions to install boost speed i don't want that so i'm going to decline it they don't stop there they want to then try to install a driver update on here as well so i'm going to decline that as well once you decline those two your installation is complete and you now can use the finder software to find the duplicate files on your system so with all that out the way you have to go through that just to get this software installed but the reason why i chose this software for you guys because it's very easy to use and it's much more user friendly now there's a bunch of software settings inside here which you can play around with if you wish but i found that you don't really have to tweak it that much just to use it so i'll just show you some of this stuff inside here you've got the ignore list and a bunch of other stuff inside here which you can play with but basically we're just going to select our drives here and once you've got this set you can then go ahead and choose the stuff you want to search for on the list then go next here once you go next it's going to offer you some select search criteria basically you just select what you want to do so ignore smaller files you can put that in here if that's what you wish to do maybe you've got a load of files for a certain size that you're not too troubled about you can put those there as well so obviously you don't want to do ignore larger files because they're the ones you want to find and that you can ignore file names and also ignore some other bunch of stuff on here so basically you can see here you don't really need to do too much so what we're going to do is get this ready by going next here now you can choose the select delete option this is the criteria that they're asking you to select whether you want to delete them to the recycle bin or the rescue center or permanently delete them you can choose which one suits you so a good thing about duplicate files is you always want to make sure that the files are duplicate and they're not named the same name but they're just different images or different files because otherwise you'll end up losing those files so you can always check once the scan has been completed whether they are duplicates or not so you can see here up the top here is just searching through both those drives and it will basically take a bit of time so be patient and let it do its thing now the good thing about these duplicate file finders is the fact that you can find loads of larger files that are taking up valuable space maybe you've got an ssd that you just want to free up some space and if you've got loads of files on there that are duplicate you can just remove them it's that simple so you can see it's listed them all here all the duplicate files that it's found here and all you'd need to do here is choose which ones you want to remove you can remove them all or you could just remove one or two depending on how you want to go about removing your duplicate files here so for instance you can see that it's found these ones up here these are both duplicate they're only small files but basically they are duplicate files and you can see it does give the file path where these files are stored and it also gives the size and the last date modified for that file here you can see there's a bunch of other files down here and again you just have to make sure and clarify that these are duplicate files you can open them to make sure they are the same but that would take quite a while i suppose depending on how many files you have that are duplicate you can see here there's 920 files that are duplicate and you can see the the amount of data there as well and the time it took to run that scan there now down the bottom here you've got the select option here you can either select the order duplicate files in each group and you you just select this and it will then select all the duplicate files and then you've got the option down the bottom to delete all of these duplicate files on your system by just clicking on this button here there's also some other options available by hitting the drop down to still go to recycle bin or permanently delete them or go to the rescue center there entirely up to you now if you want to deselect these you can do and select one at a time so if you've made a mistake you can deselect all by going back in here and you can then go up to the area where you just want to delete maybe one or whatever it is you want to do here but i'm just showing you so you've got a good idea of how to deselect them just in case now once you go to delete them here this box will pop up and then you can click ok and it will confirm that that file has now been deleted depending on what a selection you've got you've got you view your detailed report here which is also nice so if you've got a load of files that you're deleting you can give that report so if you're in pc repair or something like that and you want to show the customer the amount of duplicate files that you can remove from that system you can give them a report at the end of that if you wanted to now when you've got the same file but different file sizes it will show up red like this so they even look the same but they are different files so they've probably been downloaded at different time and that file was grown in size so it's not the same and then i'll just quickly show you the detailed report here gives you a nice detailed report as you can see here so that's your report there for your duplicate report gives you the report date when it's created you can even print it out as well so that's a nice little added feature there now if you don't want to use that software for any type of reason you could use other software like neurosoft software which is search my files it's free to use as well now neurosoft don't use open candy tactics like ozlogix and that's why i like the neurosoft's uh options better in my opinion just because they're not trying to force other installation files onto your system that you'd never ask for when you downloaded the original duplicate file finder so that's the reason why i would go with this option over the other one that's just my personal preference but if you don't mind it and you want to just take the ticks out of those boxes bowl means you can do and the program is safe to use so this is the actual program here it looks a little bit more complicated a little bit more complex to use but it is a very powerful tool and it is more simple than you actually think so just go into the search mode here and i'm going to search for duplicate search and then you can base this on folders so you can either search folders or you can search complete drives it's entirely up to you and you just select those or you can browse for those you can exclude certain types of folders if you've got sensitive data in those folders and you don't want to run the risk of deleting any data in there you can exclude those and again you can include only folders certain folders that you want to include there's wild cards here and you can exclude files as well so you can choose your extensions on there very simple now down the bottom here it will stop the search when it after finding so many files so depending on how many files you're looking to find and search for you can then hit the search start search now this will start the search off now there's some other areas inside here that i'm not going to go too far into but basically you can set this up for file time that was created modified so that should be good enough to go now we've left that running but you may see some other areas which i skipped over here so let me just quickly go over those quickly you can see the file time that it was created i've got this to all times and modified and stuff like that i've just left that on all times here and you can change that if you wish there's also this area here find files and you can also find folders as well by putting the ticking folders and i've got unlimited up there and i've just left the rest as default and let that run now that has obviously found loads of duplicate files because i never removed any of the other ones just so i could show you on this one as well and there you go it's found loads of files there so once you've found your files here you can go ahead and start to remove them if you wish but you can see here it still says up the top stop it's still doing some sort of duplicate search here to finish off so i'll quickly uh let that finish it's just checking the duplicates here as you can see so that does take a bit of time so be patient but i'll stop that and basically you can see a little menu system here now you can go on to options here as well and it's also the right click context menu here which you can use to delete selected files or move to recycle bin and you've got all the same options as you would with any other type of duplicate file search program under the options here you can just literally list all the duplicate files by gain duplicate search options show only duplicate files and it will put all the duplicate files in a list and these were all the files that it found it's that simple 3262 files so i think this was a little bit more accurate than the previous file but again you can choose which other programs you want to use but basically that's how you would find duplicate files on a system you can select all of these and then basically right click and then delete all of these files i'm not going to delete these ones because i have got them in two locations for backup purposes so i'm not going to be deleting those duplicate files anyway i think that's going to be about it that's basically how you can find and remove duplicate files on a windows operating system for free my name has been brian from brighttechcomputers.com big shout out to all my youtube members who have joined my youtube members group i shall see you again for another video real soon thanks again for watching and thanks for continue support have a lovely weekend bye for now [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

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Length: 11min 25sec (685 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 27 2021