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**buttsie** · January 14th, 2009, 01:08 AM

There in lies the problem...putting all your trust into a free piece of software doesnt come without risks as evidenced by this users experience

"I've learned this lesson the hard way. Once I ran one of these duplicate finders to clear up some duplicate files (lean = fast, right?). When I got done ALL of my shortcut files had disappeared. My desktop was blank, my start menu was blank, my quick launch was blank.
I've decided since then that duplicate files aren't that bad"

This article explains pretty well why you should leave removing duplicates unless you really know what your doing.He also goes into other less harmful ways of improving performance
including finding out where the hogs on your computer are.Maybe useful

http://ask-leo.com/is_it_safe_to_del...ate_files.html

Far safer to do a simple thing like

start/search/images and under view select arrange icons by size

January 14th, 2009, 01:08 AM	#67
buttsie Porn Archeologist Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: earth Posts: 12,714 Thanks: 92,252 Thanked 241,297 Times in 12,746 Posts	duplicate files - removal There in lies the problem...putting all your trust into a free piece of software doesnt come without risks as evidenced by this users experience "I've learned this lesson the hard way. Once I ran one of these duplicate finders to clear up some duplicate files (lean = fast, right?). When I got done ALL of my shortcut files had disappeared. My desktop was blank, my start menu was blank, my quick launch was blank. I've decided since then that duplicate files aren't that bad" This article explains pretty well why you should leave removing duplicates unless you really know what your doing.He also goes into other less harmful ways of improving performance including finding out where the hogs on your computer are.Maybe useful http://ask-leo.com/is_it_safe_to_del...ate_files.html Far safer to do a simple thing like start/search/images and under view select arrange icons by size Last edited by buttsie; January 14th, 2009 at 04:28 AM..