Search Dup Detector Dup Detector - A program to search for duplicate pictures on a hard disk, and Dup Detector also finds duplicates among those files that have a different name - it searches not by name, but by file content. After finding duplicates, unnecessary copies of the graphics can be removed, thereby freeing up the hard disk.
Compatibility: 98 / ME / 2K / XP
Download:Google Desktop Google Desktop - software for instant finding information on your hard drive and the Internet. After the installation is done scanning your hard drive (it takes place in the background) and indexing of all content, and the new documents, and other files, and visited web pages will be indexed in real time. In fact, Google Desktop Search connects together the web and your local computer, thus greatly simplifying the search procedure, while significantly expanding its capabilities.
In addition to a powerful search system, the distribution includes Sidebar, which is a panel on which the most diverse useful information can be placed - from weather forecasts in different parts of the world and nice analogue clocks to web news, player control buttons or, for example, information monitor about the system
(you can download add-ons for Sidebar
here).
Compatibility: XP / Vista
Download:Copernic Desktop Search Copernic Desktop Search - Search on hard disk (s) - instantly finds information of interest in MS Office documents (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), Outlook / Outlook Express archives, text documents, HTML pages, Favorites and History of IE, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Browser and Netscape 6.x / 7.x, WordPerfect and Adobe Acrobat documents (* .pdf). In addition, it searches for audio, video and image files, as well as for Outlook / Outlook Express contacts and Windows address book.
After the initial indexing of Copernic Desktop Search indexes the modified and new files in the background in real time (only in XP / 2000 / NT, the rest of the operating system, you can set the refresh period of the index - for example, once a day) and allows the search of necessary information search like in all categories at once and narrow the scope of the request: a file format, size, creation date, and location. To speed up the launch of search allows embedding the search window in the Windows Taskbar.
Finally, Copernic Desktop Search allows you to launch a global search on the Internet from your own window (using the Alltheweb.com search engine for this).
Compatibility: 98 / 2K / XP / Vista
Download:AVSearch AVSearch - A program to search for fragments of text files in any encoding - Windows, OEM 866 (DOS), KOI8-R, ISO 8859-5, UNICODE. It is possible to search in various archives (about 20 formats). It should be noted that the text search is performed, regardless of file extensions or codes in which they are written on the entire disc or a specific folder. In compiling queries can use logical structure (AND, OR, NOT) and 'mask'. Built-in Viewer can display documents found in the text or in the form of HEX-table. Interface - Russian, installation is not necessary.
AVSearch searches on the fly, in real time, looking at a given search zone. On the one hand, this is good: the index file takes up extra space on the disk, and the search results will always be correct (this is especially true with frequent data modification). On the other hand, if there are quite a lot of files in which it is required to conduct a search, then the search on the fly can take a very long time ...
Compatibility: 98 / ME / 2K / XP
Download:Auslogics Duplicate File Finder Can you imagine how many duplicates are stored on your hard drives? You may be surprised how much space they occupy. Auslogics Duplicate File Finder helps you deal with these files. Using this powerful utility, you can increase free disk space by 50%!
Duplicate files can accumulate as a result of everyday computer use. You can download hundreds of music and video files, various documents and applications, share them with friends, without noticing how completely identical files stored in different directories of the hard disk accumulate on your computer.
As a result, much of the free disk space is wasted. With Auslogics Duplicate File Finder, you can quickly find and delete unnecessary duplicate files and thereby free up to 50% of hard disk space!
Duplicate files not only uselessly take up space on the hard disk, but can also degrade computer performance. By removing duplicate files, you can significantly reduce the time required to defragment your hard disk, as well as minimize the time required to completely scan your computer with an antivirus program.
Compatibility: 7 / Vista / 2008 / XP / 2003, as well as 32-bit and 64-bit
Download:Dupkiller DupKiller is one of the fastest and most powerful utilities that is designed to find and delete duplicate or similar files on a computer. Sophisticated algorithms embedded in its search engine are expressed in high performance rates - high-speed file search. A large number of options makes it possible to fine tune the search.
Compatibility: Xp
Download:Clonespy A utility for finding duplicate files located on a hard disk. It is very convenient to search for duplicates of downloaded programs - it detects them regardless of the name or date of the files. In addition, CloneSpy is able to identify different versions of files, as well as define files of zero length.
Finally, this utility is capable of generating checksum files from files on a CD in order to determine whether the same files are on the hard disk.
Another very useful option is the ability to remove one of the duplicates directly from CloneSpy.
Compatibility: XP / Vista
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