Ainvo Duplicate File Finder

Just like your own room, the computer can easily get filled with lots of different files, which in the end can take up a considerable amount of disk space. To your surprise, a lot of them can be duplicates, but specialized applications like Ainvo Duplicate File Finder can easily track and remove them for more space.

With the installation process taking only a little while, so you can check out the set of features in no time. The visual design is pretty neat, with high-quality textures for all its panels. What’s more, the overall process takes you through a wizard setup, making it easy to pick areas to scan, view duplicates, and decide what’s to happen to them.

Needless to say that among the first steps is to choose the location in which the application to look for duplicate files. Although it doesn’t seem like a major inconvenience, you can only select entire drives or partitions, with no possibility to simple target a custom folder.

Going on with the process can take a considerable amount of time. Scanning shows a defragment-like panel, making it easy to keep an eye on progress, especially since files are also shown as they’re scanned. However, it can take a considerable amount of time to finish this process, and even more if your PC is overwhelmed with files and folder structures.

Unfortunately, there aren’t any built-in function in order to enhance the pace at which the scan process is done, and it would have been useful to at least be able to exclude system files and folders. When detected, files are shown in pairs, with dupes automatically selected. You can then choose to have them removed, or inspected through File Explorer.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that Ainvo Duplicate File Finder can get the job done with great accuracy. However, with no filters to at least exclude system folders, nor options to pick a custom scan path, the scan itself can take forever to finish. It’s best pointed towards other drives other than the one where Windows is installed.