How many time you wished you could have nice file copying feature in your windows! Following is short list of problems I feel windows built-in copy feature suffers from:

• Multiple copy starts same time, resulting in higher defragmentation (or you have to wait till first completes, before starting next)
• No priority control so no matter how important is copy operation to you, other programs will suffer performance loss
• In case source and destination folder have same name windows return error no matter the folders have different content
• No special provision for bulk data transfer (No auto shutdown after batch-copying, etc)
• If window restarts between copy operation, all the progress just get lost without any recovery!
• No logging at all so chances are more after some time you may loose track of what have you copied , where you have copied and so on!
• No buffer management which can result in performance variations for devices with different speed
• No pause/resume of a copy operation
• N0 disk space check. (Ideally a copy operation should check it before hand whether destination have enough disk space to continue with copying)
• Gush… The list is endless… I am tired now

But as someone said if there is a wish, there is a way and like most of the windows problem this one have third-party but open-source solution!

Eureka, its copy-handler! Its freely available for download with manuals, FAQs, installtion guide, screenshots, etc! I tested it for more than a year now and I just cant think of using windiows without it! It solves all problem listed above with additional features like…

• Auto-start with windows (optional)
• Overriding default windows copy-operation (optional)
• Changing target after copy operation is started
• Allocate custom buffer size for different devices
• Can shutdown when copy finishes
• Ask to resume/restart remaining operation after accidental reboots!
• Can provide default actions for things like delete source file if already exist and so on..
• There are more…

For developers, development manuals is here ! You can download source code from this page!

I am using tons of third-party software on my windows machine! Starting from today I will write about those I liked and tested over the years! Hope you will enjoy this and find it useful

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