Some Free Software + a question

murphydavid

If you would like some free software try this site.
https://www.giveawayoftheday.com
the comments made by the users on each program are often quite informative as well.

Today's offering is a program that lists all the duplicate files on your computer so that you can clean it up a bit. Warning you cannot always delete files just because they are duplicates, sometimes the computer needs 2 or 3 of the same thing in different places.

Which brings me to my question. I have duplicate files called driver.cab (that is the essential cabinet full of windows drivers) and is about 0.6 gig. One copy is in the normal position (windows/i386 directory) the other is in the windows/driver cache/i386. As 0.6 gig is quite substantial does anyone know if and or why both of these identical files are required or can I delete one of them?

buglawton

Wonder if it is as good as the excellent Clonespy

Cleaner007

buglawton wrote: »

Wonder if it is as good as the excellent Clonespy

Yeah. Clone Remover is good tool too in my opinion.

superscaper

Cleaner007 wrote: »

is good tool too in my opinion.

Your unbiased opinion having no vested interest of course. :rolleyes: (Alexander?)

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=cleaner007+moleskinsoft&meta=

Reggie_Rebel

Don't delete them

superscaper

Reggie_Rebel wrote: »

Don't delete them

I think your warning is about 3 months too late. The thread was only resurrected by someone advertising.

murphydavid

I didn't delete them. If you know I should not then maybe you know why? Is it really necessary to the running of a program to have two large identical files taking up space on my disc? Seems mad to me.

By the way the link in my original mail was to a whole mass of stuff (over time - one a day) not just this one program.

[Deleted User]

murphydavid wrote: »

I didn't delete them. If you know I should not then maybe you know why? Is it really necessary to the running of a program to have two large identical files taking up space on my disc? Seems mad to me.

There's usually a very large probability that whilst the files may be identical, they are linked libaries or file pointers that display the characteristics, eg size, of the main file(s) but are not actually physically occupying the space on disk that's being reported.