Advanced Space Hunter

A.S.H. allows you to control your disk space usage by discovering files that are duplicated and if you wish, deleting or archiving one or more of these duplicates.

A.S.H. also offers a visual directory explorer, that is a set of charts representing your drives and directories with alot of usefull information about space wasted, large directories, file size statistics, creation, update and access date.

Now A.S.H. is more than a duplicate file searcher. It offers usefull information about your disk usage and the price is low, you can use it as a disk cleaner, but also as a nice tool to understand how your disk space is used.

There are many ways in which duplicate files can be left on your hard disk, for example programs which don't check to see if you have a particular DLL installed and install their own private copy just in case, or other programs that install a DLL in your Windows directory when it is already in WindowsSystem.

Internet is another great duplicates producer, because of the cache directories and also becouse all of us collect graphical, text and zip files around.

A.S.H. scans your drives to find duplicate files. First it scans all the directories and collects information about the files it finds, than it sorts the file list by size and checks for duplicates.

To ensure files are really duplicates A.S.H. can use a CRC32 algorithm over the whole file.

A.S.H. makes also a file name comparison and creates a list of same name files, so you can check if there are different version of the same DLL or file.