Dupehunter Professional 9.6.0.3955

Overview

Just think about how many documents and files you have in your PC, and how many of those are located in more than one place. There’s a high chance that there are many duplicates which serve no purpose but only take up space in your drive. Dupehunter Professional is a solution to this problem that requires no advanced technical knowledge and is as efficient as any professional dupe cleaning software.

Installation

To begin the installation procedure simply run the installer, select the language you wish to complete the setup and then follow just a few easy steps. If you don’t want to mess with settings and just keep the default ones, select “Express Installation” in the first step; otherwise you’ll have to configure settings like installation directory, shortcuts and others.

Installation is package is 100% clean from malware and additional advertised software.

Supported operating systems are Windows 2000, Server 2003, XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 8.1 (32/64-bit).

Interface

First-timers will be asked if they want to enable automatic program updates or update Dupehunter manually. After doing so, a smart scan for existing files in the disk will be initiated; then users will be able to see the main window and navigate it. It’s quite bulky, and basically it’s split into 5 parts: Jobs (from where you can create new or load saved jobs), Search results (to display or load results), Additional tasks (i.e. Settings, Help, Close), Quick search (for searching a specific location for duplicate files) and Information (helpful info is displayed there).

Pros

The most important feature of Dupehunter Professional is that it has full Unicode-16 support. This means that it doesn’t matter if there are files with names containing symbols or letters from other languages; the program recognizes them and has no problem identifying their duplicates, unlike other software of this kind.

Three methods are used to compare files and see whether they are identical or not: MD5, SHA-1 and binary comparison.

System folders are by default disabled from scans for safety reasons, although this can be changed.

RegEx (Regular Expressions) is supported.

There’s no limit in the size of data scanned in one search. You’d expect some slow-down or problems when scanning huge amounts of data, but no.

Results can be saved as CSV or XML and printed.

MP3 ID3 tags V 1+2 and IPTC data are displayed when hovering the mouse over the file in the results list.

Results can be moved to recycle bin, deleted directly or removed using one of three super-secure supported deletion methods (US DoD 5220-22.M, Gutmann method and random data write).

The program is available in two languages (English and German).

Cons

The style of the interface could be improved and become more elegant.

Alternatives

FindDupe (free), Duplicate Cleaner (paid), CloneSpy (free), AllDup (free), Auslogics Duplicate File Finder (free) and DupDetector (free) are some very nice alternatives. The best out of those are Duplicate Cleaner, CloneSpy and Auslogics Duplicate File Finder.

Conclusion

If you’re starting to worry about duplicate files taking up a lot of space in your computer and want to get them removed, Dupehunter Professional will find them and delete them. It’s also very powerful when it comes to custom scans.