How to Clean Up Duplicate Files

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Tip 1 - How to Find and Remove Duplicate Files on Windows

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by steven chiou | permalink

Duplicate files waste precious space on your computer’s hard drive — especially if you have an SSD — and make your computer’s backups bigger for no good reason. Here’s how you can free up some disk space.

For further reading: http://www.howtogeek.com/200962/how-to-find-and-remove-duplicate-files-on-windows/ ^[1]

Tip 2 - How to find and remove duplicate files

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Homie Pejooh | permalink

Stevey asked the Answer Line for advise on finding and removing duplicate files

For further reading: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2032515/how-to-find-and-remove-duplicate-files.html ^[2]

Tip 3 - Automatically delete a huge amount of duplicate files

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Kelly Burton | permalink

Duplicate-file-finding programs expect you to manually check each file for deletion. That's not practical for Edward Derbyshire, who has "121,000 duplicates" to delete.

For further reading: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2039794/automatically-delete-a-huge-amount-of-duplicate-files.html ^[3]

Tip 4 - Duplicate Cleaner

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Simona Dutto | permalink

A crowded hard drive slows you down and stops you from fully enjoying all your favorite programs
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For further reading: http://download.cnet.com/Duplicate-Cleaner/3000-2248_4-10584403.html ^[4]

Tip 5 - Remove temporary and duplicate files with CCleaner

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Bounty Head G | permalink

How to delete unneeded temporary and duplicate files with CCleaner in Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 8.1
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For further reading: https://www.winhelp.us/remove-temporary-files-with-ccleaner.html ^[5]