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WinCleaner

Disk-cleanup tool for Windows — duplicate detection via perceptual hashing, NTFS fast scan, hard-link deduplication.

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WinCleaner cleans up full Windows drives without blindly deleting things. Instead of comparing file names, it detects duplicates via perceptual hashing — even when files were renamed or slightly changed.

The scan reads NTFS structures directly, which makes it much faster than a classic directory walk. Duplicates are not deleted but deduplicated via hard links: space is freed while every path keeps working.

Results end up in an HTML report with a treemap that shows at a glance where the space went.