A human brain can store and process huge amounts of information. The information stored in the brain is used later whenever required. Similarly, a computer also stores large amounts of data and is used later for processing. Unlike the human brain, computers store some unnecessary like duplicate files. empty folder, broken shortcuts, etc. which are of no use. Also, these occupy some amount of space in the storage device and slow down the computer. Removing these duplicate files, empty folders, etc can help your computer speed up and also save some storage space.
Let’s see how to remove duplicate files, empty folders, broken shortcuts, and old bookmarks from Windows computers.
Remove Useless files and folders
In Mac, there is a special process to clear such issues but in Windows, a program is needed to perform these tasks.
Empty Folders
To remove the empty folders, download the Remove Empty Directories program from the below link.
Remove Empty Directories program will display all the empty folders on your system and then let you choose which ones to keep and which ones to delete.
Download Remove Empty Directories
Duplicate Files
DupeGuru application scans either by using filenames or contents and finds duplicate files in folders on your computer. You can move or copy the files to some other location if you don’t want to delete them. Even when the files are not the same, you can set preferences so that it only finds duplicates of a certain type. Duplicate files might also be created when a user switches computers or when we download a file multiple times.
Duplicate Folders
As stated above there are many situations that lead to the creation of duplicate files. There are decent chances that you may find duplicate folders along with duplicate files. Most of the applications neglect these duplicate folders, as they occupy a smaller amount of space than compared to duplicate files. V Folder Dups, a free program comes in handy when you need to get rid of these duplicate folders in Windows.
Broken Shortcuts
Shortcuts are used to find a file located in a different directory. Â Each shortcut has a specific link that indicates the path of the file. However, when these files are moved to a different location or lost, the shortcuts break. Broken Shortcut Fixer, a free program can fix this issue. It scans for all the shortcuts and fixes them if it is broken. Shortcuts that can’t be fixed will appear on the screen, you can either delete or fix them manually.
Broken Bookmarks
Similar to broken shortcuts, the bookmarks created in browsers might break if the websites change. To fix these issues in Windows, AM Deadlink can be used.
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