Overall, Fastcopy is good for moving or copying single directories, and the interface deserves some rework. The only disadvantage I see is not supporting batch (queuing) jobs. You can also save your settings as “Profiles” (called Jobs, strangely), so you can re-execute the copies/moves quickly. A “shredder” functionality is included, to securely wipe out your original files after copying. But I mainly use it to be able to pause copying (which is done by changing the slider on the right from “Full speed” to “Suspend”). I copied around 2.5GB of 100MB files in around 1 minute 15, so it’s reasonably fast. It’s reasonably fast, achieving speeds of 40Mbps on my local disks.
You set the source and destination directories and the copy mode (Diff, copy, sync, overwrite, etc…) and click Execute. It’s only 235KB in size, and fully portable across Windows systems. This one may not have a very user-friendly interface with words such as “JobMng” in the menu, but it certainly gets the job done. There’s a valid reason why it’s all the way at the bottom. I’ll start with the one I’m using, and end with the most famous one. Oh, they also work if you want to move (cut) your files instead.
If that’s the case, you want a utility to help you manage your copy process. Sometimes you have lots of data to copy, and you come back 2 hours later, you still have a million files left to copy due to the “Do you want to overwrite?” message having stopped the process. Sometimes you need to slow down copying because you’re reading from the disk at the same time and it’s causing the head to move like mad. There have not been any new functions added since… uh since forever? I have proof! More details can be seen on the dialog, and the progress bar is prettier, but that’s basically it. Let’s face it: Windows’ file copying functionalities haven’t improved much over the years.
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