Copy-once programs

The transferred software can run on the new machine without any problem. Step 1. Select your target computer via its device name, then enter its account password or verification code and select the transfer direction. Then click "Connect" to continue. You can check the verification code on the right top of "PC to PC" mainscreen on the target computer.

Step 2. Select the categories Applications, Files, and Accounts to transfer via the internet. If you want to transfer data selectively, click "Edit" under each category, and choose the specific items. Step 3. If the software requires verification or needs you to log in, use your account and password to activate them should be your last step.

If you want to move the licensed software, you can use the Product Key to find your key number. This point works to discover your license number of Windows, Adobe, and Office. When the process completes, you can run the transferred programs on your new PC, and they will work again.

Most programs, like Microsoft Office, isn't a portable application and can not run well on another PC by copying the set files. In this case, you can only use the dedicated PC data transfer in Method 1 to copy installed programs.

But for some simple applications, you can still have a try to transfer to another computer by using a USB flash drive physically. To transfer programs to a new PC using an external drive , you need to prepare the following things:. You need the setup files for your programs because you can't just drag and drop the. EXE files in most cases.

Then you can manually copy the program to the external hard drive. And connect the device to the new PC and run the program. Copy all elected programs and paste them to the USB drive or external hard drive. Connect the device to the new PC, and then download programs to the new hard drive. Export reports, edit file lists and commercial usage are the Pro features which you can very easily do without.

Adding the dozens of files managers and other tools even just the free ones is far too big a task and probably a separate thing. This article is and will continue to be for free dedicated copying tools only. Total Copier cannot even access a URL. Over a year ago I was looking for a tool to copy numerous large files files on a scheduled weekly basis for example: 3, files averaging 2.

Wish you made a functional test too, still today programs have issues with funny characters, links, deeply nested folders etc. Make a test folder tree which includes everything, all kinds of characters in various character sets, file symbolic links, directory symbolic links, hard links, directory junctions.

Both locally and over the network. Now that would be one very useful test. I know from bitter experience. Injecting these into one compressed file ZIP or 7Z will by-pass most of these problems, usually.

Richcopy is not seeing my Network. Running Windows Any ideas? This is correct, FastCopy will not replace the shell. Once again, bad interface, excellent features. I always install Teracopy but it freezes so often and crashes out entirely extremely frequently.

But the newer betas and the older stable.. I use it as a backup but could never depend on it primarily. Honestly for any important copy I just use commandline these days. Hopefully that saves someone some headache. Also, version 2. Tried FastCopy and it blitzed it. I also like the CRC check-sum comparison being displayed during verification.

I had a quick look at the developers website. The blog has progress notes on version 3 still in alpha. One of its features will be: Unlimited number of files, the internal file list stored on disk instead of memory. When using RichCopy, you need to tune it by adding threads. While it supports multi-threading, the default is 1 thread. I am running a copy right now using 10 threads.

Multi-threading really makes the difference. I have i7 with 8gb ram but it takes like 2 days or so to transfer 1tb of data, tried with super copier and teracopy. All these programs were not able to copy I am assuming you have included the time it has taken you to select all your files to backup in that 1 hour 30 minutes? IObit PCTransfer is a personal settings and files backup and restore tool and is no quicker at simple copying than anything else.

So ensuring a highspeed bus like USB 3. I have over external HDDs which i have to regularly have to update for our clients. With over GB of mp3 files this takes some time so any speeding up of this would be great. Would i be best to go with something like these programs tested or is there a better machine that could handle copying 2 HDDs at once at good speeds?

Just gave Teracopy a go based on the reviews found here and elsewhere. Click, delete, goodbye. Back to the boring yet reliable Windoze copy dialog, I guess. I use i7 with 16G ram so it should not be hardware problem. Version I used is 2. I suppose it depends what speed your USB 3 devices are and whether Teracopy is working slower than Windows or other file copy tools you may have tried. Try another free portable file copier software Exshail CopyCare from below site. Main feature is Preview list of files before copying with seven options below.

Good test. Some just write the actual values to the destination and not the data of the source. Great Article. Not long ago I had to do some large file transfers. I tried several tools, but most gave inconsistent results. I finally settled on RichCopy 4. However, I did notice that for disk to disk local copies I had much better performance with only 1 thread and increasing the cache size, but not to the max.

I was wondering if you used standard program settings for the procedures or if you tried optimizing the settings to improve performance. Reliability is more imporntant to me. You copied many files very quickly and deleted the original files.

But… if copied data is broken or loss, what the…. Copying nn same disk Fast Copy was faster than Windows 8 when copying 25GB mixed files 1 vs But copy 3,5GB photo file from one disk to another disk Fast Copy was slower than Windows8 vs Watch out with Extremecopy.

There were files missing on the second harddrive without any warning or message. And with Teracopy or Windows copy, you have data lost, lost without any error message if error, no control and error message when error and the user presume all is ok. Same with lot of software mentionned here too. When you come back, you will have the job done. Imagine you trying to copy gigabytes of files and come back in 2 hours and see that message, would you be upset? After answering that second question, I sat there for over 60 minutes and then windows could not copy another file because of long…file…name….

Then, the whole process was stopped by windows. Talk about being mad…. Would you be mad, too? I was. So, I found the answer for us. You can walk away for 2 hours and you are sure when you come back, all files are deleted. No question will be waiting for you. The job will be done. Please seriously consider my recommendation before you, my friends over the net, waste 5 hours like me in the past.

Have a good day and please help others…Thank you very much in advance. But only the speed…. Copying a huge number of small files is always going to be MUCH slower than a small number of huge files, due to the overhead of creating directory entries.

TeraCopy dies when you select a large number of files from a folder to copy. Selected , files to copy and had to kill the process after 5 minutes of waiting for it do do something…. It takes a long time for it to process a large number of files.

At first it looked like FastCopy was doing a great Job but after seconds it shows major drawbacks in performance, my bet is the verify option! TotalRead Never failed me. A nice feature is the ability to detect and create physical Hard Links as well as logical Junction Points. Anyway, you have to study the help file carefully! Nerd recommandation : Greetz Duck. Excellent article. Helped me a lot make up my mind. Congratulations and keep on going! I visit daily your site ;. I wanto to ask if robocopy not winrobocopy is better or worse than fastcopy over network copy?

Thank you in advance for your answer and for your review. Have a nice day, Matthew. Also a little disappointed to see my program of choice, Teracopy, not do better then it did. I have tried some of these. I liked copy handler the best.

I now use Q-Dir as it does a lot more than just copy and I find it is pretty fast. It is also easy to copy between the four screens. Great review! Click any item to insert it into your current document and copy it to the clipboard again. Office Clipboard only works inside Microsoft Office apps and while it's great for formatted text and images, it doesn't work with other files.

But if you have Office open all day already, it can be a handy way to keep track of everything you copy. It's also most reliable at copying rich text with images. You'll just have to paste something in an Office app first before using it in another app. Later this year, Microsoft's adding a clipboard manager, Cloud Clipboard , to Windows 10 in an upcoming update.

It'll work much like Office Clipboard, with a new design that works in any Windows app and syncs between PCs and mobile devices. If you're using a Mac and don't need to sync your clipboard between computers, Alfred 's the clipboard manager we recommend.

That's because it's so much more than just a way to manage the stuff you copy—and yet is still one of the best clipboard managers. Alfred's main role is a search tool. Type in text to find an app or file on your computer, or search for it online. It can also define words, calculate numbers, and expand text snippets to speed up your typing.

And it has a clipboard manager. It'll keep track of what you've copied, and anytime you need to paste something old, open Alfred and type clipboard. Best of all, it pastes whatever you select right in the app you were most recently using to save you that one step. It's the quickest way to use your old clipboard items—and much more—without leaving your keyboard. Tip : You can automate your favorite business apps through Alfred, too, with Zapier's Alfred Workflow. Clipboard managers mostly need to stay hidden until you need them—and that's where Ditto excels.

It's the best clipboard manager for any Windows app. It hides in your system tray, keeping track of everything you copy. When you need something, click its icon and double-click the item you want to paste it immediately and re-copy it to your clipboard.

Looking for something you clipped a while ago? Ditto includes a search bar on the bottom of its window and type to filter through the things you've clipped. You can also set keyboard shortcuts to paste your most recent ten items without needing to open the app or tweak its settings to paste unformatted text, remove capitalization, compare changes, send text to Google Translate, and more.

It's a full text processing tool that keeps your entire clipboard history only a keystroke away. Ditto Price : Free on the Windows Store. Copied is the best way to sync your clipboard across your Mac and iPhone. It's a simple tool that lives in the background, keeping your clipboard history ready for when you need it. Open the app to search through your clippings and select one to copy it—or use keyboard shortcuts to paste multiple items easily.

Want to use things you've copied again? Copied lets you organize your copied text into sets to use over and again—and it lets you edit things you've copied. Select a copied item, click the pencil icon to edit, and you can tweak the text before saving it to use again later. Then, its templates help you do more with your text.

You can format links in markdown, convert your text to lowercase or Unicode, create a list of references from a set of copied links, and more. Or you can add rules for specific applications, so text copied from them is automatically saved to the list you want and formatted with the correct template. Spartan is a powerful clipboard manager that can store just about anything you copy—rich text, images, tables, even form entries.

Copy and paste as usual, then when you need anything you copied in the past, click the Spartan icon in your system tray and select the item you want. Need to tweak things before pasting them?

Spartan can clean up your clipboard, too, with built-in functions to change text case or resize images. You can add your own tweaks with Spartan's script language , or use its built-in editor to edit items. And you can save your clipboard forever, with 20 different sheets to keep track of lists of items you need to paste often.

Still haven't found the perfect clipboard manager for your needs? Here are a few others to consider:. CopyClip macOS; free is the best free clipboard manager for Mac—though it only works with plain text. You can still copy an image or rich text and paste it immediately, though it won't show up in your clipboard history.

It's not as reliable with rich text and images, though. Move your mouse to the menu bar and scroll down to open Unclutter's pane that includes a list of the ten most recent items you've copied, a notepad, and a place to save files you're working on.