Install program did not offer any choices (where to install, desktop icon, start menu, etc.). Installed quickly on Win10圆4 (under Classic Shell). Registration code went to Spam Folder, not sure if program registered correctly as I can still click on 'Registration' and I get blanks for user name/email and registration code (most programs either disable the 'Registration' link, show 'Registered', and/or show the user name and registration code after successful registration).

I didn't try to see if the program would work without activating it, but I know that it worked very well after activation. I have to wonder whether the people who commented that the program couldn't detect identical photos even in a single folder tried to run the program right after installation without getting the license key and activating it first. (The program does have an Auto Mark function with adjustable settings for selecting which duplicates to delete, but it doesn't have to be used.) And the choices of which photos to delete, if any, were entirely up to me.

Out of 711 total photos, it correctly detected '121 duplicates in 59 groups.' It also provided detailed information about each photo. changed the heights and widths) with IrfanView before saving them.ĭuplicate Photos Fixer Pro 1.1.1 easily found not only the merely renamed identical photos, but also the photos that I had re-saved at lower quality and the ones that I had resized, even in different folders. There are even some photos which I had resized (i.e. The folders also contain a number of photos which I had saved using IrfanView at somewhat lower quality in order to reduce their file-sizes for emailing. for specific events) to which I had copied and renamed numerous photos. The main folder contains several sub-folders (e.g. To test the program, I used it to scan (using the default matching criteria) the My Pictures folder on my Dell laptop, which is running on Windows 7, SP 1. The key was emailed to me promptly, and it worked to activate the program. The link in the readme text file for obtaining the license key worked. I downloaded this giveaway on the first day that it was offered.

Photo fixer pro