SparseChecker
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The utility for sparse files creation and management Manages sparse files. SparseChecker can free you some additional disk space normally occupied by continuous ranges of zero-bytes inside your files. With "SparseChecker" you can quickly and easily analyze the file and decide if it makes sense to optimize the occupied disk space marking the file as a sparse. The mechanics behind this process is the rarely used but yet available on all NTFS volumes "Sparse Files" technology introduced by Microsoft . There are certain types of desktop applications that produce this kind of files. These are: virtual machine creation/management software, download clients, databases, scientific software that produces lots of data using the disk file pre-allocation technique, and much more.
The license of this software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this file management software.