Fast Duplicate File Finder

Fast Duplicate File Finder is a comprehensive tool dedicated to locating and removing clone files, in order to keep just one copy. This way, you can get rid of data that needlessly occupies disk space and eliminate clutter.

It's wrapped in a professional-looking interface, which reveals all advanced search filters and other settings in the main app window. Projects with different file search configurations for various purposes can be created, saved and resumed.

The program's capable of locating duplicates by looking across all hard drives, or specified drives or directories, enabling you to build the scan scope with multiple locations as the targets.

There are three scan methods available, which instruct Fast Duplicate File Finder to identify similar files, files with similar names, or equal files as duplicates. You can adjust the level of similarity and ask the tool to compare only files with the same extensions. System files and folders can be excluded from the scan, in order to preserve Windows' integrity.

Files and folders can be filtered by name and extension, along with size and date ranges. Only matches can be taken into account by the utility, or they can be excluded. The same filters can also be applied to the quick selection mode for deleting duplicate after scan.

On scan completion, the program can be set to automatically check files with smaller or bigger sizes, older or newer dates of creation, last modification, or access. It's able to move selected files in another location while keeping the original folder structure, sending them to Recycle Bin, or deleting empty folders. Otherwise, it can save the project and send the computer the log off, stand by, hibernate or shutdown command.

Several types of files can be previewed in the main application window, such as images and videos. When it comes to the program preferences, you can minimize Fast Duplicate File Finder to the systray, set the process priority, and customize the columns with file information to display after search.

It conducted searches swiftly while remaining light on system resources usage. We haven't experienced stability issues. Taking into account its advanced options and configuration settings, Fast Duplicate File Finder comes in handy to seasoned PC users who want to clean up their computer by removing duplicate files.