Clean up hard drives and duplicate files

January 30th, 2020

I believe my computer is stuffed up with tons of rubbish and duplicate files so I want to have a cleanup. The problem is I have many zipped files (zip, rar, 7z and so on) in my hard drive. The zipped files may contain duplicate files which can’t be detected without extracting all of them. However my hard drive will be maxed if I do so this method is impossible.
1. Is there any good program which is capable of doing this?
2. Is there any way to solve the above problem?
3. What is the best way to manage the stuff you download and prevent getting duplicate stuff?
Thank you.
Answer #1
1. I’m not sure of any off the top of my head, but I would not risk doing this, because you may remove files that are crucial to he operating system.
2. You can buy an external hard drive and transfer everything over, if you’d like. Then format the internal hard drive and reinstall your operating system. That way, all of your sacred files are safe on the external.
Answer #2
Try using Window Washer first, I run it regularly to clean-up my drive. Duplicate files are always going to happen when you install stuff, but they’re usually not that big anyway.
http://www.google.com?t=828885&highlight=
– Try archiving some of your stuff to DVD.
– Search for .WAV, .MP3, .WMA, .VOB, .ISO files etc, you may be able to get rid of some of them.
Answer #3
…and rar and zip files are not active, probably stuff that you have already used..have a look at em and see if you still need..
Answer #4
1. I'm not sure of any off the top of my head, but I would not risk doing this, because you may remove files that are crucial to he operating system.
2. You can buy an external hard drive and transfer everything over, if you'd like. Then format the internal hard drive and reinstall your operating system. That way, all of your sacred files are safe on the external.
1. I believe there should be a program which is capable of excluding Docs/Settings, Program Files and Windows Folder. What I want to search for duplicate is the downloaded stuff.
2. Well this is a good and lazy workaround without the need of cleaning duplicate. Should I just let it be, buying extra space to store duplicate ; or should I try my best to remove the duplicate and save the resources in the world ?
Answer #5

- Try archiving some of your stuff to DVD.
- Search for .WAV, .MP3, .WMA, .VOB, .ISO files etc, you may be able to get rid of some of them.
There are some problems when you backup the stuff in DVDs etc. You may forget some of them later so you re-download the same thing.
I believe I have downloaded many duplicate stuff (eg images, music, scripts, program etc.). I’m not sure if there is any good way to manage my stuff efficiently.
Is there any mechanism which helps to prevent this from happening?
Answer #6
Check this out..
http://www.google.com?t=830690&highlight=
Answer #7
Ace utilities does all of this plus has a registry Cleaner and a startup manager
Answer #8

chris2u wrote: Select all

Check this out..
http://www.google.com?t=830690&highlight=
Thanks.
I tried this one (not the latest) previously but not impressed.
There are some minor bugs.
The scan time is very long. I wonder if there is any software which can do it more efficiently.
Answer #9
use tuneup to del most of that stuff
Answer #10
use tuneup to del most of that stuff
Does tuneup has duplicate detector?
Answer #11
The biggest trash I want to clean is duplicate stuff.
I believe I have many of these due to my poor file management.
How could I improve it?

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