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Find Junk Files may not be an imaginative software name, but it's an accurate one. This free tool finds junk files on your PC, mostly temporary files and folders. It scans for more than 100 file types, even obscure stuff like DOS and Windows 3.1 files, but you can choose what to scan and what to exclude. It's easy to use, maybe too easy; while it doesn't target anything dangerous like system files, it can find and remove logs, caches, settings, and other files and folders that, while not exactly "permanent," you'd prefer to keep, if only for the sheer nuisance value of replacing them. Find Junk Files also includes a privacy scan.
Find Junk Files has a basic interface with a wizard mascot and three main buttons: Scan Computer Now, Privacy Protection, and Check for Updates. On the left side, buttons let you select files and folders to scan or exclude, start scans, and access the program's settings, which include allowing multiple instances, playing sounds, and moving files to the Recycle Bin or deleting them directly.
We started a scan, which turned up a wide range of files. We were pleased to see nearly everything Find Junk Files found was in fact a junk file, mostly inside Temp folders. We could sort the list by size, type, attributes, date, name, and other headings. We could simply highlight a file, folder, or range of items to remove them, or we could click a button labeled Remove All Files. We don't recommend doing this until you're sure about what's being removed. The scan also found some folders. Most were safe to delete, but there's no harm in keeping an empty program file just because the program in question hasn't used it yet. Weigh that against the chore of restoring a lost file in a corrupted program, and those few kilobytes hardly seem worth recovering.
Find Junk Files offers no access to a Help file from the interface, other than an active link from the developer's logo. That's a shame because it has considerable online resources, though some of the entries we clicked on were blank, suggesting a work in progress. Used carefully, Find Junk Files can help you clean out the junk that clogs up your system.
Publisher's Description
From eyeClaxton Software:
Find Junk Files is a user-friendly utility designed to free up disk space by deleting useless junk files. Each time you use your PC, unwanted files are created that increasingly uses more space on your hard drives. Find Junk Files can find over 100 types of junk files with ease. Unlike many other programs Find Junk Files will let you choose which drive or drives to clean, which file types to search for and/or what folders to include or exclude, whether to delete them or not.
What's new in this version: Version 1.51 build 1318 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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All versions:
3.4 starsout of 53 votes
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Current version:
3.2 starsout of 20 votes
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"Have purchased this Product/ more than happy"
Version: Find Junk Files 1.51 build 1318
Pros
The Program Found Junk Files that I had no idea were there. Got 6gb space back / admittedly I had not done any Junk File clean out for 3 years!!!
Cons
None that I can think of
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"Not free, not free"
Version: Find Junk Files 1.51 build 1318
Pros
not free, not free
Cons
Why does CNET lie and say a product is free when it's actually a 14-day trial and you then have to BUY it for 19.95.
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"Excellent tool"
Version: Find Junk Files 1.51 build 1318
Pros
Cleans verry fast
Cons
Until now I fond none
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"I find this to be an excellent addition to my Computer"
Version: Find Junk Files 1.51 build 1318
Pros
Finds stuff I never knew I had ,And cleans them out..
Cons
Everything good
Summary
Recommended it to my friends who now use it too..Good work
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"virus virus"
Version: Find Junk Files 1.51 build 1318
Pros
none none none
Cons
nortons 360 keeps rejecting it as a virus
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"no problems yet"
Version: Find Junk Files 1.51 build 1318
Pros
got rid of 180 megs
Cons
could have problems in future
Summary
taking a chance they know what they are doing!
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"Outstanding Software!"
Version: Find Junk Files 1.51 build 1318
Pros
Finds almost every piece of garbage file that is not needed and taking up disk space. Very straightforward and easy to use software with little chance of mucking up your system if you are careful.
Cons
None found yet.
Summary
Very easy to use software with no problems.
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"great little prog. finds files i didn't know i had"
Version: Find Junk Files 1.51 build 1318
Pros
simple to use, very efficient
Cons
none that i can think of
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"Useful but slow"
Version: Find Junk Files 1.51 build 1318
Pros
Found me extra gigs on my HD I didn't even thought
Cons
Slow, sometime hangs when deleting lots of files
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"My review of Find Junk Files"
Version: Find Junk Files 1.51 build 1318
Pros
So far,I have been very satisfied with Find Junk Files. I would like to upgrade because at thus point, there's only so much I can do with it. However, I give it a thumbs up.
Cons
I haven't really had it long enough to know of anything negative about the program.
Summary
Personally, I would suggest the site
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