Some are command line based which may not be for every one of you out there.Īt the moment, I’m using TeraCopy on my Windows XP machine. There are also other applications out there that claims to copy files faster in Windows but I haven’t had a chance to try them yet. TeraCopy does copy files faster in Windows on a single large file but on multiple smaller files, the performance increase in copying is there but not really significant. In Windows XP however, the speed is obvious, especially when copying large sized files. It looks like in Windows 7, the performance is about the same so unless we can see some significant changes on the final version, you probably don’t need to use TeraCopy on a Windows 7 environment. On Windows XP with Service Pack 3 installedĬopying 677 MB file from 1 folder to the other (on the same drive):Ĭopying 712 MB of Adobe & Microsoft Office folder from my Program Files (to the same drive but different partition) – 1,749 files & 133 folders:Ĭopying my 994 MB Outlook pst file (to the same drive but different partition):Ĭopying 5.6 GB of data consists of 29 folders and 199 files (varied from 4 – 100 MB filesize) You can also do a pause/resume (rather than the default Cancel button) while you are copying so you can shift the CPU and memory to whatever process that requires your immediate attention.īut most importantly, let’s look at the speed of copying whether TeraCopy really copies files faster in Windows than the default one. In a nutshell, TeraCopy is meant to copy files faster in a Windows computer.
TeraCopy is a Windows application designed to sit on top of the default Windows copy feature.
I know it’s probably unfair to write a post based on a beta copy of a software but even during its beta, TeraCopy 2 performs well and things will certainly be improved when the final version gets released.