If you move or copy large files in your pc or laptopthen I am sure you might be pissed off at the long time it takes, though you may have the best sata HDD.
This slow thing happens because of some windows coding jargon etc. Anyways, these are some of the best softwares you can use to copy files faster in windows.
TeraCopy – Copy your Files Faster, even from Scratched CDs
TeraCopy is a compact program designed to copy and move files at the maximum possible speed, providing the user a lot of features. I often have to move big files and this helps me a whole lot.
- Copy files faster. TeraCopy uses dynamically adjusted buffers to reduce seek times. Asynchronous copy speeds up file transfer between two physical hard drives.
- Pause and resume file transfers. Pause copy process at any time to free up system resources and continue with a single click.
- Error recovery. In case of copy error, TeraCopy will try several times and in the worse case just skips the file, not terminating the entire transfer.
- Interactive file list. TeraCopy shows failed file transfers and lets you fix the problem and recopy only problem files.
- Shell integration. TeraCopy can completely replace Explorer copy and move functions, allowing you work with files as usual.
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ExtremeCopy – Copy Files Faster
ExtremeCopy is a Windows copy file utility which copy and move files and folders extremely fast and operation is simple. It includes some powerful features such as pause copy process,error recovery and so on but as easy as Windows default copy handle. Features are :
- Copy or move your file(s)/folder(s) as usual and more efficient and more powerful
- Save much time when you backup your files to another hard drive or USB drive or computer
- Manage your copy task easily
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FastCopy – Fastest Copy/Delete Software on Windows
It automatically selects different method according to whether Source and DestDir are in the same or different HDD. Reading and writing are processed respectively in parallel by another thread for Diff HDD, while for Same HDD reading are processed until the big buffer fills.
When the big buffer filled, writing are started and processed in bulk because Reading/Writing are processed with no OS cache at all, other applications aren’t easy to become heavy.
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Talent Copy – Read & Write Files in Hard Drive Faster
Talent Copy V, which is a totally free program, currently in beta, and is devoted entirely to Windows Vista at Seven, by which you can speed up the transfer of our files up to 3 times, restricting the same time, any gaps and noise of the HDD.
Download Talent Copy: Link
Using Talent Copy V is particularly easy, since, to take advantage of its great potential is sufficient to copy, or move our files and folders as usual, although they had by using the “Copy Paste with Talent” this in context menu, when the files are pasted into another destination.
Copy Handler – Copy and Move Files Faster and Smartly
Copy Handler is a free software for Windows systems, which allows you to take full control over the file copy and move operations. Program is highly customizable and fully integrates with the operating system.
In addition, Copy Handler offers many advanced options such as task queuing, filtering files according to specific criteria, pausing and resuming copying files operations, changing the copying parameters on the fly and in many cases also offers a significant acceleration of the entire copying files process.
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Super Copy
Super Copy provides a very robust way to copy files in Windows. Super Copy does not prompt you for more information once the copy has started; all options are specified beforehand. This is simply a lightweight interface for XCOPY, and will not negatively affect your system’s performance.
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Power Copy
Power Copy provides a specialized copy environment useful for data backup and data recovery applications.
It gets past Windows security so you don’t need to worry about having proper permissions. Files that are physically damaged are automatically skipped and the copy process continues. On-screen alerts let you know of any issues encountered.
Download : Power Copy
Easily drag and drop files with the Windows Explorer shell extension. Use the standalone executables provided in the installation directory to launch Power Copy on another computer without having to install it.
Fix to Copy Large Files in Vista Faster
Maybe you have already encountered the strange behavior that it takes much longer to copy large files in Windows Vista than in Windows XP. The problem is caused by a new feature called Auto Tuning which is by default enabled inMicrosoft Windows Vista.
To disable Auto Tuning and speed up the copy process and avoid timeouts and disconnects do the following:
Open a command prompt and type the following:
netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabledTo turn it on again:
netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=normalDon’t try this if you feel uncomfortable in DOS. Let me know your experience with these softwares/tricks in comments!! 
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