FastCopy
Developer(s) | Shirouzu Hiroaki[1] |
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Initial release | September 28, 2004 |
Stable release | 2.11 / 19 June 2012[2] |
Operating system |
Windows 98 Windows ME Windows NT Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows 2003 Windows Vista Windows 7 |
Platform | Microsoft Windows |
Available in | English/Japanese |
Website |
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FastCopy is free open source (BSD license) computer software, a portable file and directory copier that runs under Microsoft Windows.
There are 32- and 64-bit versions which runs under Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista, and Windows 7. The files comprising 32-bit version 2.11 are about 750kB.[3] It claims to offer fast transfer of files between hard drives and copying of files within the same drive. It can run as a free-standing application or be integrated into the Windows shell.
In a test conducted in 2008 by lifehacker, Fastcopy was several times faster than its rival Teracopy,[4] a program with similar functionality. However, both programs have been updated since then. A more extensive comparison was performed between TeraCopy v2.07beta, KillCopy v2.85, FastCopy v1.99r4, SuperCopier v2.2bet and published on a forum in 2009.[5]
In Microsoft Windows up to and including Windows 7, the Win32 API and any program that uses it (like Microsoft's Windows Explorer) has a limitation of maximum 260 UTF-16 characters (MAX_PATH in windef.h) in file and directory paths when performing file copy and rename (including move or deletion) operations, but not in file access (e.g. execution or reading) operations; but this limitation becomes 32,768 when a program uses its own code over the NT kernel for file operations or unlimited if a program accesses the NTFS file system directly in low-level. FastCopy does not use Microsoft's API and places its own calls to the NT kernel, therefore enabling a user or system administrator to perform file copy, move or delete operations even if the file or directory paths involved exceed 260 characters.
Screenshots
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FastCopy On Windows 7
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FastCopy General Settings Window
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FastCopy Shell Settings Window
See also
- RichCopy
- Robocopy
- Teracopy
- Ultracopier
References
External links
- Official website
- FastCopy repository at GitHub