A Faster File Copier

by on Sep 5, 2009 | 5 comments

Windows Explorer does just about anything you would need it to with respect to file management, however one complaint you may see people have is that it lacks speed when doing file copies. If this is something you have noticed, a utility you should try is TeraCopy. TeraCopy is a program optimized for doing one thing- copying files fast.

Personally, I do a lot of work with virtual machines (copying, moving, etc.) which have a file size of at least 8 GB so this looks like something I am going to give a try. Does anyone already use TeraCopy or another similar program? If so, what is your experience?

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  • Jean M

    Hey David and Jason, you always come with some handy features and tools that are so helpful, you are doing a tremendous job. Well done

    Kind regards

  • B-O

    Using it since a few weeks and liking it very much!
    It certainly speeds things up without using up much resources.

  • Greg D

    Built myself a new Core i7 machine a couple months ago with Win7 RC1 x64 and upgraded to Win7 RTM.

    Copying large 3-4 GB ISO files from file server to local machine seemed noticeably slower than the previous WinXP x64 machine. Don’t know if the Win7 iteration of NTFS is to blame…but it was taking quite a few seconds before the copy even started.

    Started using TeraCopy Portable on a USB stick and it seems a lot faster…good little app.

  • Peter

    ExtremeCopy copy files extremely fast too. it will help you speed up copying task

    http://www.easersoft.com

  • Qasim Mahmood

    Hi my name Is Qasim. I tried tera copy… both the regular versions and the new beta versions. i;ve tried them on my p4 parallel ATA drives and to speak honestly… THEY WORK WONDERFUL!!!…….. really increases thee speed of file transfer.. also shows you the current speed of file transfer. now i’ve upgraded to SATA drives so dont use them anymore beacuse the default speed of SATA 2 is enough for me. so i haven’t tried it on SATA but Teracopy sure works on PATA (normal) drives!. THANKS

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