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| Thread ID: 130352 | 2013-04-06 22:34:00 | Ccleaner | gary67 (56) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1335681 | 2013-04-06 22:34:00 | Updated my quite old version of Ccleaner last night and the newest version now includes a duplicate file finder. Just tried it and its nice and simple to use :dogeye: | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1335682 | 2013-04-06 22:37:00 | Cheers for that Gary - have you also seen Treesize Free (www.jam-software.com)? It's pretty awesome too... | johcar (6283) | ||
| 1335683 | 2013-04-06 23:59:00 | Thanks for that Gary, I never knew that facility existed in CC (probably because I never looked). And also thanks for Treesize, johcar, I'll look at that. I have two (unrelated) questions arising out of this: 1. I recently made a new clean install of W7, and now I've got duplicated files named "windows.old". I assume all these should be safe to delete; any gurus care to comment? 2. Is that old bogey about index.dat still around? I recall there was a shock horror article in Granny Herald at the time. M$ claimed it was a dynamic file with no fixed size, and returned to zero regularly. Billy T and Terry Poritt came up with a how-to fix that M$ claimed there was no need for. Is it still with us (esp on W7)? :D |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1335684 | 2013-04-07 03:31:00 | WalOne: When you did a clean install, the previous Windows installation was renamed Windows.one. You could transfer files, not programs, to the new installation if you want to. If you are sure you do not need any of the files then you could happily delete Windows.one. | Bryan (147) | ||
| 1335685 | 2013-04-07 03:50:00 | How well does the duplicate finder work? I would hope that it compares them by some kind of checksum and not just file name or such. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1335686 | 2013-04-07 04:39:00 | WalOne: When you did a clean install, the previous Windows installation was renamed Windows.one. You could transfer files, not programs, to the new installation if you want to. If you are sure you do not need any of the files then you could happily delete Windows.one. Aaaah. Thanks for that. :thumbs: |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1335687 | 2013-04-07 04:58:00 | How well does the duplicate finder work? I would hope that it compares them by some kind of checksum and not just file name or such. Good question ? Just did a scan: 4906 |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1335688 | 2013-04-07 05:32:00 | Thanks for that Gary, I never knew that facility existed in CC (probably because I never looked). And also thanks for Treesize, johcar, I'll look at that. I have two (unrelated) questions arising out of this: 1. I recently made a new clean install of W7, and now I've got duplicated files named "windows.old". I assume all these should be safe to delete; any gurus care to comment? 2. Is that old bogey about index.dat still around? I recall there was a shock horror article in Granny Herald at the time. M$ claimed it was a dynamic file with no fixed size, and returned to zero regularly. Billy T and Terry Poritt came up with a how-to fix that M$ claimed there was no need for. Is it still with us (esp on W7)? :D Well I only just found it in the new version it certainly wasn't in the previous versions |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1335689 | 2013-04-07 07:13:00 | oh wow yeah, must be new to v4 nice will try out that filetree program too |
GameJunkie (72) | ||
| 1335690 | 2013-04-07 21:40:00 | Neat. the last one I was able find that was free was a bit irritating to use. Ccleaner has always been really rather user friendly, hoping this is gonna be the same. | 8ftmetalhaed (14526) | ||
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