Duplicate File Lord

There’s a high chance that some space on your computer is mainly taken up by duplicate files, and is a case that can happen when dealing with loads of pictures. Needless to say that it’s a pain to manually clean them up, but you can completely rely on specialized applications like Duplicate File Lord to get the job done in a few seconds.

One of the application’s main advantages it that it doesn’t take you through the hustle of an installation process, giving you the possibility to take advantage of its features even from a USB flash drive. This also means that the target PC’s health status remains intact, because computer registries don’t need to be modified.

All functions are wrapped around a custom-made interface that, not only does it give it a personal look and feel, but it also makes it easy to identify functions and things that need to be filled in. There’s a general preferences menu that lets you set comparison methods, whether to keep file history, or remove duplicate files completely, without sending them to Recycle Bin.

To narrow down results, there’s the possibility to set up file filters, and this is easily done by writing down extensions. Before conversion can begin, you also need to tell the application in what folder to look, with options to select entire drives.

Duplicate File Lord manages to get the job done in only a few seconds, with results almost instantly revealed in a table, along with related details like character length, last edit time, as well as location to know where the pesky file was hiding. Duplicates are cleverly highlighted and selected by default, so you can remove them at the press of a button.

All things considered, we come to the conclusion that Duplicate File Lord is a trustworthy application that manages to provide an intuitive set of tools with which to identify duplicate files on your computer in seconds. The general design is meant to reduce effort to minimum, with duplicates automatically selected, thus deserving a try overall.